- Fiction, coming of age, Martha's vineyard (mass.), fiction, Friendship, fiction, Young women, fiction
A poor girl overcomes temptation and succeeds in life. It happens when she befriends a rich girl whose father offers to pay her college tuition. It is not easy, the rich one, now turned playgirl, tempting her away from studies with boys.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Judy Blume
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 408
- Publisher
- JC Lattes, Dell, Gao bao guo ji (ji tuan) you xian gong si
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- French, Chinese, English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780307575241
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Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman) is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages. Blume's novels for teenagers were among the first to tackle such controversial matters as racism (*Iggie's House*), menstruation (*Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.*), divorce (*It's Not the End of the World, Just As Long As We're Together*), bullying (*Blubber*), masturbation (*Deenie; Then Again, Maybe I Won't*) and teen sex (*Forever*), and as such have been the source of controversy over the appropriateness of such topics for her middle school audience. She is married with two children and a st
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