I Was a 98-Pound Duckling

by Jean Van Leeuwen

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803741391
• ISBN13: 9780803741393
• Release Date: October 1972
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

I was a 98 pound duckling too!

I read this as a tween, and I really enjoyed it. I ended up buying it again as an adult to see if the book still held up after all this time, and it did. I think the author wrote about something so universal in all of us as we are growing up and finding out who we are and all those insecurities we have then too. I recommend this book to ages 12 and up.

Swan-to-be Duckling

Kathy McGruder is your average 13-year-old girl facing those same old problems children never dreamed they would have as teens. Her hair that she once never paid any attention to has now become "problem hair". Her looks and weight, that she has always been confident in, now makes her feel like she's some kind of concentration camp victim. And she's never been asked out on a date thanks to all of this(or, at least, thats what she thinks). Oh, and to make things worse, she's got a friend who shares none of her beauty problems and has a date with a hottie in just three days. What's a 98-pound duckling to do? Well, find out in "I Was a 98-Pound Duckling", a book that kept me on my pillow 'til I finished it. It's the kind've book that gets you reading it all in one sitting. My favorite part was when Kathy got her first kiss. Siggghhhhhhh, romance. Anyway, "I Was a 98-Pound Duckling" is a great read for anyone under 17 or 15 years old, and makes for a fun story to read anywhere. But mostly it makes for a unique bedtime story, so forget about those fairy tales and bring out Jean van Leeuwen's ol' masterpiece.