The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Paula Danziger
New York: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN 9780440916123
Dell 91612
Copyright 1974
Thirteenth Laurel printing 1980
119 pages

The binding is in good condition, the pages are clean but tanned. The cover has some creasing and shows edge wear.  Good. Paperback.

Marcy Lewis is bored by school; her father tyrannizes both Marcy and her mother; she despairs of ever being thin; she is certain she'll never have a date and that a horrible case of acne will break out any minute. Then along comes Ms. Finney, an English teacher willing to try anything in the classroom. Above all, she is accessible and human. Marcy has never met anyone like her, and suddenly life in and out of school begins to have a purpose