Name: Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
ISBN: 9781416531043

Meg Cabot

Megan Crane

Julie Kenner

Melissa Senate

Cara Lockwood

Beth Kendrick

Jennifer OConnell

Stacey Ballis

Laura Caldwell

Stephanie Lessing

A collection of personal essays by some of today's most popular young adult and women's fiction writers considers the ways in which the books of Judy Blume influenced their emotional, social, and physical developments, in a volume that includes contributions by Meg Cabot, Cara Lockwood, and Megan McCafferty. 50,000 first printing.

Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume

Melissa Palmer

Book #84 Read in 2012
Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
edited by Jennifer O'Connell

This book features a variety of authors detailing how the works of Judy Blume affected them as they were growing up. Blume receives a nice tribute from these authors and acknowledgment that her works were meaningful to slews of readers. Many of Blume's books are mentioned, but titles such as Forever, Deenie and Tiger Eyes and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret receive several mentions.

Having been a huge Blume fan growing up, this was a nice way to revisit some memorable titles. It was an interesting read about how literature can affect readers and stay with readers for years and years. I enjoyed it.

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Cindi Coan