Judy Blume

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she...

Peter finds his demanding two-and-a-half-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.

Further adventures of first-grader Jake "the Pain" and his sister, third-grader Abigail "the Great One", include a trip to the beach with Grandma, to a county fair with Aunt Diana, and to a mall with Dad.

Spending the summer in Tarrytown, New York, is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she does not want to admit.

Peter Hatcher describes his family's Maine vacation with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge.

A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.

Freddy hates being the middle one in the family until he gets a part in the school play.

When her parents divorce, a sixth grader struggles to understand that sometimes people are unable to live together.