The cat ate my gymsuit

Paula Danziger
*****

During the weekends, I read a nice book called 'The cat ate my gymsuit' by Paula Danziger. It's not really a long book, so I just finished it in about 2 days. My friend Young Woo recommended it and this book was also in the recommended book list. It actually turned out to be a good book.

This book is about a High School girl called Marcy in a school life. She has some school friends like Nancy and others. She hated her father because he was always shouting at his little brother Stuart and her with no reason. He hated her school life because of the principal. However, this event changed her life. Marcy's class had a new teacher named Ms. Finney who was the nicest teacher she'd ever had. Everybody liked her but Mr. Stone, the principal hated her and also other teachers. Mr. Stone planned to fire Mrs. Finney because she didn't do the Pledge of Allegiance, she wore clothes differently, she taught students in a different way; not a traditional way. Because of that, Ms. Finney got suspended so Marcy spoke up in front of Mr. Stone and told him nothing was wrong with Ms. Finney. Marcy also got suspended because of this.

My favourite part of this book was when Marcy and his boyfriend, Joel went to Nancy's party and had a nice time there. Joel asked Marcy if she wanted beer so she said that she wanted to. After the party, Marcy admitted to Joel that she actually didn't like beer but she only drank because everybody else was drinking. She wanted to be like others, not special. What surprised me in this book was when Joel and Marcy went to the party, and I thought they would dance together but Joel said that he was a lousy dancer.

I really liked this book so I would give this book 5/5 stars.