The Delano School and Margaret's family provide the important characters in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Margaret's friend, Nancy Wheeler, who is so concerned about sexual maturation that she lies about having menstruated, and Laura Danker, a girl Margaret learns to dislike and envy for looking far more mature than she is, help establish Margaret's concern with sexual maturation. Margaret's more docile friends, Gretchen Potter and Janie Loomis, share this concern. So great is the girls' worry about bodily development that they lose sight of what they really like. When Nancy, Margaret, Gretchen, and Janie exchange their boy books, handsome Philip Leroy always ranks number one, even though he is lazy, crude, and nasty. For the girls it seems impossible to both be accepted by their peers as normal and admit what they individually.....
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