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 emot...
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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, te...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Alleen Pace Nilsen
[Forever …] may be just the book to replace the now dated Seventeenth Summer even though it is officially coming out as an "adult" bookȂ...
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Critical Essay by Pelorus
How the world turns. Twenty years exactly after Beverly Cleary's Fifteen … was first published, in which it took Our Hero 174 out of 175 pages to kiss Our Hero...
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Critical Essay by Nicholas Tucker
[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. ...
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Critical Essay by Anne Redmon
Sex, for all its sometimes gruesome oughts and shouldn'ts, never deserved Forever … …. Judy Blume takes more than just a peek at Kath and Michael ma...
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Critical Essay by Dorothy Nimmo
[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 ...
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Janet Jackson (see slideshow) recognizes the power of the flesh. She has deflated Nipplegate, taken control of her curves, and found a love like no other. Craig Seymour discovers the secret of how ...
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In a small north Georgia town tucked in the foothills of the Appalachians, the Fourth of July means more than hamburgers and fireworks. Here, in Dahlonega, Independence Day is a sacred opportunity ...
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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 i...
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Say goodbye to those pesky 1- and 2-cent stamps that used to clutter up desks and purses every time the price of mailing a letter went up.A new "forever" stamp _ good for mailing a letter no matter...
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The new "forever" stamp, the one that will always be good for first class postage, is proving popular, but the postmaster general says other commemoratives will be sticking around, too.The forever ...
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Sam Hornish Jr. and Marco Andretti can remember every turn of the wheel, every nudge of the pedal. It came down to a few feet at the end of 200 laps, as Hornish streaked across the finish line to w...
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His striking pose alongside an internationally renowned beauty adorned billboards and the pages of Vogue magazine. But even in playful embrace with Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, Keseme Ole ...
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New York enjoys a reputation as a union town, where brawny firefighters demonstrate for better pay or teachers pack Madison Square Garden demanding their long-delayed (and now-awarded) contract. In...
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Critical Essay by Alleen Pace Nilsen
Janet Jackson: Forever Young
