Children's Literature. The Controversy in Judy Blume's "Are You There God? It's Me Margaret"
Children's Literature. The Controversy in Judy Blume's

Author: Phyllis Economy

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 3668458642

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Literature Review from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Children and Youth, grade: 99.0, Winthrop University, course: Children's Literature, language: English, abstract: This paper sets out to examine the controversial issues of the book “Are You there God? It’s me Margaret”, and the level suitable for reading. The book by Judy Blume (1970), takes on a humorous and insightful journey through the pubescent stage of twelve year old Margaret Simon’s life. We hear all her private thoughts about what goes on in her life and what she would rather happen in her life. While Blume’s book, is an profound and comical read for pre-teen girls, I believe that students in fifth grade and higher should be able to read the book. While the language of the book is simple for the reading level of a third grader (Titlewave), the content is too mature for them and should be selected for older, preteen students who understand and are in the midst of going through those stages in life.

Are You There God? It's Me Margaret.
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret.

Author: Judy Blume

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-04

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0689841582

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Margaret Simon has a lot of things to think about--making friends in a new school, boys and dances and parties, growing physically "normal" and choosing a religion. "With sensitivity and humor, Judy Blume has captured the joys, fears, and uncertainties that surround a girl approaching adolescence."--"Publishers Weekly." Great Stone Face Award winner. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Author: Judy Blume

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-04-29

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1481409948

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Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

Tiger Eyes
Tiger Eyes

Author: Judy Blume

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-04-29

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1481413872

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When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read her tiger eyes.

Who Is Judy Blume?
Who Is Judy Blume?

Author: Kirsten Anderson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 152479015X

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Learn how Judy Blume went from a stay-at-home mother to one of the most beloved American authors of the twentieth century. Readers adore Judy Blume for her personal stories about the journey from childhood to adolescence. She has always been an imaginative person and an avid reader. As a child, Judy spent time looking through library shelves for the perfect books, and if she couldn't find the right ones, she entertained herself by making up stories in her head. When she got older, Judy started writing her stories down. Although readers fell in love with characters like Margaret Simon and Fudge Hatcher, some parents challenged some of her titles, including Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, for discussing sensitive issues. Despite all the controversy, this award-winning author and her books have remained popular among fans, both old and new.

Then Again, Maybe I Won't
Then Again, Maybe I Won't

Author: Judy Blume

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2012-03-21

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0307817717

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Ever since his dad got rich from an invention and his family moved to a wealthy neighborhood on Long Island, Tony Miglione’s life has been turned upside down. For starters, there’s his new friend, Joel, who shoplifts. Then there’s Joel’s sixteen-year-old sister, Lisa, who gets undressed every night without pulling down her shades. And there’s Grandma, who won’t come down from her bedroom. On top of all that, Tony has a whole bunch of new questions about growing up. . . . Why couldn’t things have stayed the same?

Women Who Broke the Rules: Judy Blume
Women Who Broke the Rules: Judy Blume

Author: Kathleen Krull

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0802737951

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A new biography series complete with full color illustrations that celebrates amazing women, from acclaimed author Kathleen Krull.

Nightjohn
Nightjohn

Author: Gary Paulsen

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0307804224

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"To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading." -- Nightjohn "I didn't know what letters was, not what they meant, but I thought it might be something I wanted to know. To learn."--Sarny Sarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. He had escaped north to freedom, but he came back--came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment Nightjohn still retumed to slavery to teach others how to read. And twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to take the risk to learn. Set in the 1850s, Gary Paulsen's groundbreaking new novel is unlike anything else the award-winning author has written. It is a meticulously researched, historically accurate, and artistically crafted portrayal of a grim time in our nation's past, brought to light through the personal history of two unforgettable characters.

In the Unlikely Event
In the Unlikely Event

Author: Judy Blume

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1101875054

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of Are you There God? It’s Me, Margaret returns with an adult novel that takes us back to the 1950s and introduces us to the town where she herself grew up, where a community is left reeling after a real-life tragedy when a series of airplanes fell out of the sky. “Makes us feel the pure shock and wonder of living.... Judy Blume isn’t just revered, she’s revolutionary.” —The New York Times Book Review “No one captures coming-of-age milestones…like Blume.” —The Boston Globe Here she imagines and weaves together a vivid portrait of three generations of families, friends, and strangers, whose lives are profoundly changed during one winter. At the center of an extraordinary cast of characters are fifteen-year-old Miri Ammerman and her spirited single mother, Rusty. Their warm and resonant stories are set against the backdrop of an extraordinary real-world tragedy. Gripping, authentic, and unforgettable, In the Unlikely Event has all the hallmarks of this renowned author’s deft narrative magic.

Blubber
Blubber

Author: Judy Blume

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2024-11-05

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1665980737

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“Blubber is a good name for her,” the note from Caroline said about Linda. Jill crumpled it up and left it on the corner of her school desk. She didn’t want to think about Linda or her dumb report on whales just then. Jill wanted to think about Halloween. But Robby grabbed the note and before Linda stopped talking it had gone halfway around the room. There was something about Linda that made a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they could go…but nobody, Jill least of all, expected the fun to end where it did.