The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

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Summary: One of the best books I've read
Review: I suggest it to all children between 10 and 15

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Summary: Courage and Braveness
Review: This book was pretty good. It was about this teacher named Ms. Finney who came to Dwight D. Eisenhower Highschool to be the new English teacher.But then she was fired a few days later because she never said the "I Pledge Allegiance" and the parents thought she wasn't giving the students that much education. Marcy, Joel, and Nancy struggle to get this teacher back. At the end when there was a school meeting requesting this matter, they said she could comeback to be a teacher but then she refused because she wanted what was best for the students.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I read this book when I was in High School - thought it was great then and still is! Danziger creates believable characters with realistic problems. Teenagers today may have different problems but the message is the same.

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Summary: An Excellent Read
Review: "The cat ate my gymsuit," said Marcy Lewis. This was her excuse from gym class. Paula Danziger certainly doesn't need an excuse for this excellent book. In Danziger's first book she addresses the issues of a typical teenager and how the teen deals with those problems. Danziger makes the book interesting to the reader by giving the story a touch of humor, which results with a smile on the reader's face. I believe that this is a wonderful book to read because of the teen issues involved and also how the humor was used to cheer the situation up when the it wasn't exactly the best situation. I would definitly recommend this book to anyone, anyone willing to read an excellent novel that is. Paula Danziger does a beautiful piece of work with this book

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Summary: amazing!!!
Review: I love this book, it helped me through being a little over weight, but it made me feel better about myself, and I thought that if the main character could feel better about herself, i can also.

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Summary: An excellent true-to-life story of high-school, and gym.
Review: It's not east being a high-school blimp, hating gym and having an awful father. Marcie tells it like it is in this brilliant book. But is her new teacher, who is just starting to bring Marcie out of her shell, here to stay?

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Summary: Excellent book
Review: this book is one of the best books i ever read. the book is so much like a normal teens life. i think paula danziger is cool and should write alot more

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Summary: Just a good book.
Review: This book had believable characters, and a good, sort of open-ended resolution (like what might happen in real life.) Some of the unhappy scenes are painfully accurate, and you can be glad for Marcy when something goes right.

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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read.
Review: I have to positively say that this book was a great book to read because it the first one I actually understood. I could relate to the character in it and related to her situation. This book isn't well known but it should be because the author is a terrific writer and can say the truth

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Summary: One of the best books I've read!
Review: "The Cat ate my gym suit" by Paula Danzinger, was a fabulos book.The book was full of laughter and real events happing today in Amerca. Some parts of the book were a bit exagerated but very true. In the story, a young girl named Marcy Lewis feared she was too fat and ugly to get a boyfriend went on a long rollar coster of events that changed her life. Marcy was having problems at home, hre dad verbally abused both her and her brother. Marcy's mother never defended her in fear that her and her husband may end up in a fight, although she did not aprove of this type of behavior.The only people Marcy felt she had left that she could talk to was her friend Nancy and her younger brother Stuart, until Ms. Barbra Finney, her new English teacher came along. Ms. Finney helped Marcy relize that her life has a perpose and that she shouldn't be afraid to express herself around others. Marcy's new self- confidence not only landed her a boyfriend, named Noel but also a date to the dance. Then when Marcy thought her new found life at school was headed on the right track, the unthinkable happend Ms. Finney was suspended from her work. When Marcy decided to stand up for Ms. Finney her mom was behind her all the way but ofcourse her father was not, which caused friction at home. Marcy too was suspended. Things didn't turn out the way Marcy or Ms. Finney would have like them to, but in the end Marcy used her new knowledge to keep her head up high and not be ashamed, and so he did woth out Ms. Finney. I would recommend this book to a girl my age most definatly or even a teacher whose up for a good laugh and some sad moments. Over all this was an awsome book and i rate it 4 stars!