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About the Author

Judy Blume was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on February 12, 1938. She received a bachelor's degree in education from New York University in 1961. Her first book, The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo, was published in 1969. Her other books include Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret; Then show more Again, Maybe I Won't; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great; and Blubber. Her adult titles include Wifey, Smart Women, Summer Sisters, and In the Unlikely Event. In 1996, she received the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement and in 2004, she received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Judy Blume

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972) 12,334 copies, 178 reviews
Superfudge (1980) 9,154 copies, 76 reviews
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) 8,041 copies, 244 reviews
Fudge-a-Mania (1990) 7,061 copies, 30 reviews
Double Fudge (2002) 6,186 copies, 37 reviews
Freckle Juice (1971) 5,942 copies, 84 reviews
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (1972) 5,853 copies, 40 reviews
Summer Sisters (1998) — Narrator, some editions — 4,359 copies, 86 reviews
Blubber (1974) 3,759 copies, 63 reviews
Forever . . . (1975) 3,416 copies, 136 reviews
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself (1977) 1,949 copies, 25 reviews
In the Unlikely Event (2015) 1,908 copies, 95 reviews
Then Again, Maybe I Won't (1971) 1,832 copies, 19 reviews
Tiger Eyes (1981) 1,788 copies, 41 reviews
Just as Long as We're Together (1987) 1,760 copies, 23 reviews
Deenie (1973) 1,738 copies, 20 reviews
Iggie's House (1970) 1,683 copies, 9 reviews
The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo (1969) 1,580 copies, 15 reviews
It's Not the End of the World (1972) 1,436 copies, 22 reviews
The Pain and the Great One (1984) 1,338 copies, 27 reviews
Wifey (1978) 1,321 copies, 24 reviews
Here's to You, Rachel Robinson (1994) 992 copies, 15 reviews
Smart Women (1984) 860 copies, 12 reviews
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Editor — 321 copies, 6 reviews
Cool Zone with the Pain and the Great One (2008) 281 copies, 4 reviews
Judy Blume's Fudge Box Set (1992) 276 copies, 1 review
It's Fine To Be Nine (2000) — Contributor — 127 copies
Wifey/Smart Women (2001) 53 copies, 1 review
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. [2023 Film] (2023) — Based on the book by — 28 copies
Judy Blume Diary (1981) 5 copies
Superfudge 2 copies

Associated Works

Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (1942) — Foreword, some editions — 1,412 copies, 14 reviews
Free to Be... You and Me (1974) — Contributor — 503 copies, 8 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (2008) — Introduction — 475 copies, 9 reviews
A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (2018) — Contributor — 257 copies, 4 reviews
It's Heaven To Be Seven (2000) — Contributor — 210 copies, 2 reviews
The Penguin Book of Classic Children's Characters (1997) — Contributor — 96 copies
Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy (2009) — Contributor — 71 copies
Growing Up Stories (1995) — Contributor — 10 copies
A Collection of Action Stories (1988) — Contributor — 7 copies
Top Teen Stories (2004) — Contributor — 6 copies

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as coming of age is a mansion where the dark seeds are put to be reaped, so too is childhood as a young girl... perhaps all this religious investigation will reap the fruit of a pious nature or perhaps inspire thus more her yearning to connect to both the exterior and interior? what makes young girls desire the touch of death ? the blood that becomes a crooked river ... the facets of flesh or to continue a monolgue and give it life where she becomes a siren in her threaded story of wholeness and separateness- to pull the volleying life forward and watch its eddies flow or pierce us back as though crimson sky, a heavenly place where there are only god and the aparition of being a unique person where we can chide and dismantle Him as if we are still of the younger. When we wrought (pursue) the life of intrigue and although still wanting, we still have our essays on god as a mode or deeper seeded meaning towards, as in a map, the philosphers stone that we wear now and again as a diadem or on our chests still burgeoning like an internal heart perhaps. In our bodies like skin prined as though a jewish new year or a baptism we never agreed to until we saw god force our hand to merely prove we could… (more)
 
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Sri-Hari-Palacio-MEd | 243 other reviews | Dec 21, 2024 |
Wow. Judy Blume is awesome. I was pleased to find that she's awesome on Twitter now too @JudyBlume I'm glad I finally read this book.
 
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KWharton | 135 other reviews | Dec 14, 2024 |
This was quite dated. I'm very grateful not to live a life like the main character. "Forever" has held up better with time.
 
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KWharton | 23 other reviews | Dec 14, 2024 |
Independent Reading Level:2nd-4th

Awards/Honors: LA Notable Children's Book, Children's Choice Book Award,IRA/CBC Children's Choice, New York Times Bestseller, Top 100 Chapter Books for Kids (Scholastic Book Club)
 
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