- Emotional problems, Emotional problems of children, Family, Fiction
Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and worse
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Classical in form, spare, earnest and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Judy Blume
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 164
- Publisher
- Story House Corp, MACMILLAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS, Heinemann
- Editions
- 44
- Language
- Spanish, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780027110906
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“-Who says March is supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb?”
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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