Places I Never Meant to Be 1999
By Judy Blume, Norma Fox Mazer, Julius Lester, Rachel Vail, Katherine Paterson, Jacqueline Woodson, Harry Mazer, Walter Dean Myers
- American Short stories, Short stories, Children's stories, Stories
A collection of short stories accompanied by short essays on censorship by twelve authors whose works have been challenged in the past.
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- Author
- Judy Blume, Norma Fox Mazer, Julius Lester, Rachel Vail, Katherine Paterson, Jacqueline Woodson, Harry Mazer, Walter Dean Myers
- First published
- August 1, 1999
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606208550
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“When I was growing up I'd heard that if a movie or book was "Banned in Boston" everybody wanted to see it or read it right away.”
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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