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‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.’ Offers a Still-Edgy Portrait of Puberty

The books of Judy Blume are radical. Countless kids learned about menstruation and bra fittings from Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret., her 1970 novel about a sixth grader sitting uneasily on the cusp of puberty. (For boys, Blume covered the equivalent taboo topics in Then Again, Maybe I Won’t.) It’s tempting to put […]

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