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Judy Blume is in a class by herself among writers of books for children and young adults. In less than two decades her books have sold more than thirty million copies. Part of the Blume phenomenon is that her readers become involved with her as well as w...

Whether they find them in the library and read them with their parents, or borrow them from friends and secretly read them alone, young people love Judy Blume books. Millions and millions of sales, television and film adaptations, and numerous awards fro...

Perhaps the most popular contemporary author of works for upper elementary to junior high school readers, Judy Blume (born 1938) is the creator of frank, often humorous stories which focus on the emotional and social concerns of suburban adolescents. Alt...

What sort of picture would a being from another planet form of teenage and pre-teenage America were he able to read Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret and Forever? He would imagine that youth was obsessed with bras, period pains, deodorants, orgasms, and family planning; that life was a great race to see who was first to get laid or to use a Tampax; that childhood and adolescence were unpleasant obstacles on the road to adulthood—periods (sorry!) of life to be raced through as quickly as po...

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret … is about menstruation and religion, in that order. Margaret Simon, aged twelve, has two crushing anxieties on her young shoulders: when will she begin to menstruate? and in which church will she, born of Jewish father and Christian mother, find the official seat of the God she chats to so cosily in moments of stress? The story is inconsequential. The book consists largely of the endless body-obsessed prattle of Margaret and her friends, and as such will ...

A huge, unquestioning audience awaits any book by the author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. But even Judy Blume's young teenage fans may find [Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself] hard going in places. Blume still captures the anxieties and dreams of her heroines, but an uneventful winter in Florida for a 10-year-old from New Jersey fails to bring Sally close to the reader. The year is 1947, and Sally's preoccupation with Hitler's atrocities among the Jews (including ...