Judy Blume
Judy Blume is an American author known for young adult and children's novels that address topics like puberty, sexuality, and family conflict with unusual candor.
Books like *Are You There God?
It's Me, Margaret* and *Forever* became touchstones for generations of readers, though their frankness has made them frequent targets of censorship efforts.
- MargaretTraditional woman's name
- pubertySexual development stage
- adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
- blubberMarine mammal fat
- frecklesPigmented skin spots
diary · middle school · coming-of-age · periods · bras · awkward · growing up · banned books · book ban · Sheila · secret diary · Peter · realistic fiction · tampons · crushes · friendships · menstruation · young adult
- Authors JJ.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, James Patterson, John Grisham
- Women WritersJane Austen, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Anne Bronte
- Youth Literatureyoung adult novels, coming-of-age stories, bildungsroman, teenage protagonists, Hardy Boys
- girls' fictionNancy Drew, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
- Bestselling AuthorsStephen King, James Patterson, John Grisham, Danielle Steel, Nora Roberts
- Jewish WritersSaul Bellow, Philip Roth, Elie Wiesel, Sholem Aleichem, Anne Frank