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...

Forever is a long, long time. (German) Nothing lasts forever....

Forever... is a 1975 novel by Judy Blume dealing with teenage sexuality. Because of the novel's content it has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of...

THE SWEET FOREVER By George P. Pelecanos Little, Brown. 298 pp. $23.95 Almost anyone who lives in the District of Columbia probably would tell you that first and foremost it is not the seat of the national government but a place where ordinary...

However much gentle readers may enjoy being told the way the world works, the benevolent tyranny of the omniscient narrator has been under assault for years. Experience is fractured! cried the moderns, then the postmoderns; Only the interior point of view is sacrosanct. So...

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Q: Does it make financial sense to buy up packs of the U.S. Postal Service's Forever stamp?A: Sometimes hard facts defy even the most seemingly commonsensical ideas. Take, for instance, the newly introduced Forever stamp, which will always be good for first-class postage regardless of...

[Forever …] may be just the book to replace the now dated Seventeenth Summer even though it is officially coming out as an "adult" book…. Once the thousands of girls who grew to love Judy Blume when she led them through their first menstrual periods with Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret find that she is now offering to lead them through their first experiences with sexual intercourse, they will seek out the book regardless of whether or not we have it at school—...

[Forever …] is a story as told by the adolescent heroine, about an affair with another seventeen-year-old that germinates, burgeons and finally goes to seed. As a narrative technique, talking straight from the adolescent's mouth can also act as camouflage for slack writing, not entirely avoided here. Although it may be in character for the narrator to rhapsodize about eyes that are "very dark, with just a rim of green and other times they sparkle and are greenish-gray all over", ...

[Forever …] is a very explicit account of a teenage love-affair written in the style of a magazine story, peppered with the three dots that used to be left for the imagination to fill in although in this case nothing whatever is left to the imagination…. All the right messages are put over, about responsibility and birth-control and not having abortions and illegitimate babies, but all the same I think it is pornography and so a limiting rather than a widening of experience. It suggests patter...