The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Marcy's life is a mess. Her parents don't understand her, she feelslike a fat blimp with no friends, and her favorite teacher just got fired. Ms. Finney wasn't like the other teachers, and she was helping Marcy feel good about being herself. Now that she's gone, Marcy doesn't know what to do....
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Marcy's life is a mess. Her parents don't understand her, she feelslike a fat blimp with no friends, and her favorite teacher just got fired. Ms. Finney wasn't like the other teachers, and she was helping Marcy feel good about being herself. Now that she's gone, Marcy doesn't know what to do. She's always thought things would be better if she could just lose weight, but the loss of Ms. Finney sparks something inside her. She decides to join the fight to bring back her teacher, and in doing so, she discovers that her voice might matter more than she ever realized. With issues that still resonate strongly today and a character millions of teens have connected with, we are thrilled to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Cat Ate My Gymsuit.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142406540 (0142406546)
Publish date: March 23rd 2006
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 147
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Kids,
Coming Of Age
Series: Marcy Lewis (#1)
Paula Danzinger was another staple author of my early adolescence. She doesn't hold a candle to Judy Blume for emotional or moral/ethical depth, but she still wrote a number of compellingly readable titles filled with humor and a realistic amount of angst. Marcy is in ninth grade and she's shy, h...
I picked up this book at Good Will last week, and when I arrived at home, I began to flip through it, and accidentally ended up reading the whole book in about an hour and a half one night. This book was so dear to me when I was younger. I knew what Marcy meant about the self esteem issues and her...
I loved this book when I was young and it was good to reread, all these years later, with my 4th and 6th grader. It still stands as a realistic, honest and painful lesson on the impact of bullying, real friends vs. false friends, the often terrible price of fitting in and the all too frequent des...