Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret book review - ReadersHub
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by jude blume book review
Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, NJ, making up tales inner her head. She has spent her grownup years in many places, doing the identical thing, solely now she writes her memories down on paper. Adults as nicely as kids will understand such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Superfudge; Blubber; Just As Long As We're Together; and Forever. She has additionally written the best-selling novels Wifey; Smart Women; and, Summer Sisters. More than seventy five million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into twenty-six languages.
She receives heaps of letters every month from readers of all a while who share their feelings and concerns with her.
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret book review
Book tittle ; Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Ratings ; 4.8
Author ; Judy blume
Age groups ; 12 to 15 years old
Publisher ; mackmillan children's book
Pages ; 176
Genre: Young adult
Characters: Sylvia Simon, Margaret Simon, Nancy Wheeler, Herbert Simon, more
exercising to the chant of "We must—we must—increase our bust!"—and the wistful longing of Margaret, who talks with no trouble to God, for a religion, come collectively as her nervousness to be normal, which is herbal ample in sixth grade.
And if this is what we choose to inform kids, this is a fresh, unclinical case in point: Mrs. Blume (Iggie's House, 1969) has an convenient way with phrases and some desire ones when the event arises. But there is chance in the preoccupation with the bodily symptoms of puberty—with developing into a Playboy centerfold, the purpose here, even though the one woman in the type who's on her way rues it; and with menstruating quicker as an alternative than later —calming Margaret, her mom says she used to be a late one, however the blissful ending is the first drop of blood: the impact is to verify common anxieties as a substitute of allaying them. (And countertrends notwithstanding, a good deal is made of that first bra, that first dab of lipstick.) More promising is Margaret's pursuit of religion: to determine for herself (earlier than her 'liberal' mother and father intended), she goes to temple with a grandmother, to church with a friend; however neither makes any experience to her—"Twelve is very late to learn." Fortunately, after a disillusioning sectarian dispute, she resumes speakme to God…to thank him for that telltale signal of womanhood.
Which raises the final question: of a satirical stance in lieu of a perspective.
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