GidgetBy: Frederick Kohner A surfing, boy crazy teenager comes of age in the summer of 1957 in this classic novel that inspired both movies and television and created an American pop culture icon. My English comp teacher Mr. Glicksberg says if you want to be a writer you have toquotesit on a window sill and get all pensive and stuff and jot down descriptions. Unquote Glicksberg! I don't know what kind of things he writes but I found my inspiration in Malibu