Deenie
Edition: 13th printing
Publisher: Bradbury Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780027110203
Copyright date: 1973
Subjects: Body & health; Fiction dealing with social issues; Fiction dealing with specific issues; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction; Children: Grades 4-6; Readers - Beginner; Juvenile Fiction / General; Health & Daily Living - General; Social Issues - Adolescence; Fiction; Scoliosis
First sentence: My mother named me Deenie because right before I was born she saw a movie about a beautiful girl named Wilmadeene, who everybody called Deenie for short.
Description: There she was, Deenie Fenner, almost 13, stuck in a doctor's closet trying to get into two body stockings, and scared out of her wits. All those awful Saturday trips to modelling agencies weren't anything like this...

Deenie's mother wanted her to be a model, with her face on magazine covers--maybe even in the movies. Deenie wanted to spend her Saturdays with her friends Janet and Midge, tracking Harvey Grabowsky, the captain of the football team, around Woolworth's. She wanted to be a cheerleader, too, or be going to the seventh-grade mixer to hear Buddy Brader play his drums.

But instead she had these body stockings to get on and a roomful of strangers to face. Suddenly Deenie had to cope with a kind of specialness that was frightening--and might be hers forever.
--front flap