#middlegrademonday
@karisimo
Still have my copy from the 1970s. 🧡🩶🧡
#middlegrademonday
@karisimo
Still have my copy from the 1970s. 🧡🩶🧡
I still cannot believe that it is 2024 and this book is considered #controversial. It makes me so sad.
#aboutabook
Happy birthday Judy Blume! 🎂🎂🎂
5/5 🌟
This book is incredibly sweet, heartwarming, and funny, transporting me back to my pre-teen years. I truly wish I had read it during my youth, which is why I bought a copy for my daughter. A must-read for all young girls.
Offers great insight into the perspective of a 6th-grade girl. Margret forms new friendships along the way. The characters are relatable and credible for young preteen girls today. Discusses working on a new journey in life. Talks about the challenges that young girls face (boys, periods, getting to know themselves, etc.)
The novel covers the challenges of moving to a new place and ones connection to belief. It is a great contemporary fiction novel that covers growing up and how that can be difficult and that it is possible to get through it. It touches on identity and working towards finding it.
Offers a good perspective of a 6th-grade girl. She is starting a new school and shares her thoughts about figuring out her identity. It is about friendship, family, and spirituality. Perfect for pre-teens (boys, periods, understanding herself)
“Are you there God? It‘s me, Margaret. We‘re moving today. I‘m so scared God. I‘ve never lived anywhere but here. Suppose I hate my new school? Suppose everybody there hates me? Please help me God. Don‘t let New Jersey be too horrible. Thank you.”
This book is perfect for middle school students in grades 5-8th. This book dives deeper into the perspective of a young girl who is navigating her new life experiences of moving, making new friends, understanding her developing body, and her relationship with religion. Overall, the book is very relatable for young pre-adolescents.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, is a beautifully written book by Judy Blume. This book offers great insight into the perspective of a young sixth-grade girl. The book discusses the issues of friendship, family, and spirituality as Margaret navigates the uncertainties that come with adolescence.
Watching this as I eat my dinner #booktomovie #deweyoct
A message on New York Public Library site about banned books week.😞 https://view.email.nypl.org/?qs=26c95893c7359142b3232a24d641e3cf46b119d294d71433...
3⭐️ I was 12 when I read this book for the first time, and I‘m now older than these kids‘ parents! 🙈 Have you all seen the movie? Is it worth watching?
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Out facing Blume Is leather & is signed for/to me from her Florida Bookstore on the 50th anniversary of the book. 💕
The film is fun. I loved the book as a kid. I related to the moving, not having a central religion, puberty and everything surrounding it. 😀
A quick read so I can finally see the movie. I actually loved it and made me laugh. Oh to be a pre-teen again 😂
Judy Blume was a staple in my childhood! I wanted to reread this one because I want to see the new adaptation sometime soon.
#bookspinbingo - free space
I read this as a kid. I now have an 11 year old daughter who I thought about taking to see the movie so I reread the book first. It felt so serious when I was a kid. I‘m glad to have reread it as an adult and use it for talking points with my own preteen.
I've never read this book in my 29+++ yrs, been meaning to read it the last 20 yrs. Just finished my 1000 pgs book so I wanted something LIGHT 🪶
Also, I‘m so glad I don‘t remember much of my tween yrs 😂
Today‘s B&N haul! I‘ve somehow never read Are You There, God? The rest are for my (almost) 11 year old who already tore through Attack on Titan this evening, and has requested I get the next couple. I‘m curious to see what he thinks about Hunger Games. Oddly enough, I remember devouring the series while on bed rest with him!
#bookhaul
#raisingreaders
sooo i just had a baby like 14 days ago so i haven't been reading much 😩
sooo idk why i'm like flipping through books like one flips through tv stations but i'm currently reading 4 books 2 on my kindle and 2 physical i'm not sure how i got here
I don't remember reading this as a child. I read this because everyone was talking about the book. I didn't care for the book at all. I rated this book a 3 out of 5 stars. Book 2 completed for #MagnificentMay readathon @Andrew65
Read this before the film comes out. I really enjoyed this one
Quick ending but I enjoyed being back in a PreTeen Sensation mindset as a parent.
The cover of the copy I had as a kid + cotton balls, because I just read that part.
I‘d forgotten how good Blume is. 💜
I surprised it took me this long to read this book. I would have preferred to read one of the original ones that still had menstrual belts rather than pads. I feel like that would have made a bit more sense. I mean, you don‘t put a pad back in the box out of embarrassment. This was a great book! 5🌟
I loved reading when I was growing up…but there was no one steering the ship. There were no big readers in my family, no friends I swapped books with. The titles I read, therefore, were those I stumbled upon at my local discount store. Judy Blume‘s classic YA novel wasn‘t one I encountered. So, I was excited to read it, in advance of the movie, for my Young at Heart Book Club for adults (which I host at the library where I work). 👇🏻
In a Friday afternoon heaven.
I'd never read this as a kid! I was prudish and very sheltered and am sure I would have been scandalized by various aspects (Dad‘s Playboys! Two Minutes in the Closet! Religious questioning! 😱🤣). It was sweet, and I will now allow myself to watch the movie trailer.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • Somehow I never read this as a child!
https://www.jta.org/2023/03/20/opinion/how-judy-blumes-are-you-there-god-its-me-...
💕use “reader view” if you can read it…
One of the very reasons I loved this book.
When I heard this was being turned into a movie I had to revisit it and I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane. #MiddleGradeMarch @megnews @sblbooks
So happy to see these stories will finally be adapted to movies!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/business/media/judy-blume-hollywood.html
#page2screen
With the movie being released soon I figured it was time I finally read this book. How I missed it as a child escapes me as I was 12 (Margaret's age) in 1970 when it was released and share both a first and middle name with the title character. Wow did this book bring back memories of that time and how I wished I had read it then. Surprisingly it did not feel totally dated and I now look forward to sharing the book with my granddaughter. 4 stars!
#middlegrademarch
1. Judy Blume my lifesaver!!!!
2. Rollerskating my dad owned a roller rink from when I was 8-40 years old.
3. Parochial school … so many idiotic rules … 🤬so so many🤮🤮🤮
4. I‘m doing a reread of Are you there God ? Preparing for the movie..♥️♥️♥️♥️
I have been waiting (almost) my whole life for this.
https://lithub.com/at-long-last-watch-the-very-70s-trailer-for-the-adaptation-of...
Follow the link https://betterme.ca/ to listen to me and my dear friend Heather Ross discuss book banning.
What are some of your favorite banned books??
Mine are anything by Judy Blume and The Outsiders by SE Hinton.