The Cat Ate My Gymsuit (Hardcover)

from aimless22

Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, felt like the fattest person in the room, or felt shy beyond imagination can relate to this book. 

from ycinto1

Summary: Marcy Lewis pretty much hates everything about her life. She thinks she is fat and unattractive. Her father is verbally abusive and her mother is a wreck of anxiety. However when she gets a new English teacher her life starts according to her to "suck a little less". Her new English teac...

from kgriffith

Danziger's writing captures the essence of teenage girls better than anyone else's that I've read and can recall. Her characters are brilliantly developed, which brings you deep into the heart of each subplot and makes the outcomes truly important to you. This book can comfort - and perhaps even ...

from RGQuimby

Clever and funny. A good example of a fallible heroine. Slightly dated (references to "grass" and the emerging feminist movement) but still appealing.

from francescadefreitas

This was over-recommended to me as a child, and I deliberately avoided it, even though I'd enjoyed a few books by the same author. I think I would have enjoyed it then more than I did now, reading it as an adult. Marcy Lewis lives with a doormat mother, an abusive father, no confidence in her fri...