The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Edition: Reprint (16)
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 1987?
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780440416128
Copyright date: 1974
First sentence: I hate my father.
Description: Marcy Lewis is bored by school, she despairs of ever being thin, and she is certain she'll never have a date. Life at h ome isn't great either, since her father bosses her and her mother around.

Then along comes Ms. Finney, an English teacher who will try anything in the classroom, and above all, a teacher who acts human. Marcy has never met anyone like her, and suddenly life in and out of school begins to have a purpose.

When Ms. Finney is suspended because of her controversial teaching methods, the school is thrown into an uproar. When Marcy, now out of her shell, helps to organize a protest, she too is suspended. With her mother firmly on her side, her father violetnly opposed, Marcy mus decide whether her fight for Ms. Finney and the values she stands for is worth the price she must pay at home and in school.

--back cover
Notes: A Yearling Book
US/CAN