- Fiction, Gifted children, Family problems, Friendship
Expelled from boarding school, Charles' presence at home proves disruptive, especially for sister Rachel, a gifted seventh grader juggling friendships and school activities.
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Classical in form, spare, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Judy Blume
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 196
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Books, Laurel-Leaf Books, MacMillan Children's Books
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780434966141
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“Trouble in our family is spelled with a capital C and has been as long as I can remember.”
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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