![]() Her only solace is her nights out with Ted, a sweet, guitar-playing boys’ counselor. Being surrounded by nosy, giggling, joke-telling girls (and one nightmare camper in particular) is enough to make her want to jump in a lake. Marcy’s sure everything will be perfect-until the campers arrive. Finally, she’s on her own for the first time, away from family and school. Finney asks her to be a junior counselor at a creative arts camp. Marcy Lewis is thrilled when her former teacher Ms. "The issues of teacher independence and student protest are topical, and Marcy, an intelligent and enjoyable adolescent, is an appealing heroine." -Library Journal Read more Danziger has an attractive style her prose sparkles with wit and originality." -Publishers Weekly "Funny and alive." -The New York Times Book Review But is this new independence worth the price she'll pay at school and at home? ![]() Finney is suspended, Marcy knows she's got to take a stand. Now that she's found a teacher who sees Marcy as more than a name on an attendance sheet, Marcy realizes her life could mean something. ![]() Finney, an English teacher who'll try anything in the classroom and actually treats kids like human beings. Life at home isn't great either, since her father bosses her and her mother around. Marcy Lewis is bored by school, she knows she's never going to be thin, and she is dead sure she'll never have a date. A modern classic with issues that will be relevant always. ![]()
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