Judy Blume has frequently been the target of censors. Forever, her novel dealing with an adolescent love affair, is the most frequent target, but other novels are attacked as well. Tony in Then Again, Maybe I Won't has erections and wet dreams that puzzle him, and that novel too has brought the censors' wrath on Blume. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is a less tempting target, but the novel does show Margaret and her friends examining illustrated medical books and Playboy magazine hoping to learn about their changing bodies and the bodies of boys. There is nothing salacious about any of Blume's adolescent novels. Blume regards many of her novels as information books, containing facts that young people need. While many adolescents.....
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