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A review by kari1016
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Read as the “children’s classic published before 1980” for the Read Harder Challenge.
I’d never read this classic before. It gets all the notoriety, I think, for talking directly about periods and puberty. But I think the conversations on religion (her parents are a lapsed Jew and Catholic, with one side even disowning their child for marrying outside of their religion) is far more interesting. Margaret embarks on her own quest for religion, which just reminded me that kids do have minds of their own and can form their own conclusions—a quality I will probably both celebrate and fear in my own child.
I’d never read this classic before. It gets all the notoriety, I think, for talking directly about periods and puberty. But I think the conversations on religion (her parents are a lapsed Jew and Catholic, with one side even disowning their child for marrying outside of their religion) is far more interesting. Margaret embarks on her own quest for religion, which just reminded me that kids do have minds of their own and can form their own conclusions—a quality I will probably both celebrate and fear in my own child.