Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 07 Pages: 304 Publisher: Picador USA Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old with a voice that can shake an auditorium She should be the Star of Darcy Arts Academy. so why is she hiding in a seedy motel room Perhaps it has something to do with a devastating scandal --- and the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches tall. Big Girl Small is a scathingly funny book about dreams and reality. at once light on its feet and profound.