First published in 1970, Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is a well-known classic of American preadolescence. Margaret Simon and her parents have just moved from New York City to suburban New Jersey. As Margaret begins sixth grade, she navigates the pressure and insecurity of living in a non-religious household (her parents eloped when her mother's Christian parents disapproved of her Jewish father), the ups and downs of her new friend group and the pressure to like certain boys, and her personal physical development and maturity, particularly her obsessive desire to get her period.
Because of the explicit way the book discusses the physical aspects of puberty, from...
