Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, published in 1970, was Blume's first controversial novel. One of the major concerns of the protagonist of this story, a concern commonly shared by teenage girls, pertains to when she is going to fill out her first bra. Before Blume, teenage girls had talked among themselves about this subject, but no one had ever written about it.
Published a little more than ten years after Blume's Forever . . . , Maureen Daly's Acts of Love (1987) similarly portrays a young girl in love and the challenges that she must face. The author describes a.....
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