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Deenie is a 1973 young adult novel written by Judy Blume. This book, like many others written by Blume, has been banned in schools for themes deemed inappropriate for adolescents; in this case, talk about masturbation and sexuality. Deenie is on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 at forty-sixth.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Judy Blume
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 159
- Publisher
- Amer School Pub, Neuf en poche, Laurel-Leaf Books
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- tha, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780606030144
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“My mother named me Deenie because right before I was born she saw a movie about a beautiful girl named Wilmadeene, who everybody called Deenie for short.”
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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