Publisher's Synopsis
Marcy Lewis has a lot to deal witha clinging mother, an angry father, a lousy school situation, and the inescapable fact that she is fat. But when Ms. Barbara Finney arrives to take over Marcy's English class (the kids drove the previous teacher out) suddenly nothing in Marcy's life will ever be the same. Ms. Finney is bright, funny, creativeand, as far as the principal is concerned, more trouble than she is worth.