- Death, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's literature
Davey's father has been murdered - and the aftermath is causing her family to fall apart. Her heartbroken mum plucks them up and takes them to stay with her prim and proper aunt in Los Alamos.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and intimate.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Judy Blume
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 220
- Publisher
- Laurel, Listening Library (Audio), Macmillan
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- French, und, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780878881857
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“It is the morning of the funeral and I am tearing my room apart, trying to find the right kind of shoes to wear.”
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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