The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Format: library binding
ISBN:
9780385281942 (0385281943)
Publish date: October 28th 1974
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 128
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...
3.5 stars
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...