(my mind was basically screaming at me to make this into a book) Mei Lee, a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old is torn staying between her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming, is never far from her daughter. An unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited, she "poofs" into a giant red panda! but she has her trusty animal friends to help her out - Two italian sea monster boys and one speedy blue hedgehog