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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Blume, Judy
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0878880224
- ISBN 13
- 9780878880225
- Seller
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Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
Scarsdale: Bradbury Press, 1984. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. An early ex-library copy specially bound with pictorial boards which are rounded. Edgewear and tape shadows to boards. Stamps to endpapers, title page and page opposite. Tape shadows to free endpapers and adjacent pages and pocket to ffep. Some stains to front page ends. Jacket is unclipped(no price) with chips to head of spine, top of front panel and front flap and bottom of rear flap. Some short tears to top of front panel and nicks at spine ends. Small stain to bottom front corner. Spine is well faded with sticker shadows/residue and scarring.
Synopsis
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is about a sixth-grade girl growing up and wondering about God and puberty and boys. It was challenged a lot after the 1980s because of its frank discussion of topics like religion and sex. Blume was one of the first Young Adult novelists to write about subjects long considered taboo for teenagers, and is credited for helping to get generations of pre-teens into reading although she has also been named one of the most frequently challenged authors according to the American Library Association. The novel was Blume's third published book. It has become a touchstone coming-of-age novel for girls. Through the five decades of popularity it has received updates from the publisher, including a controversial 2014 cover art depiction of Margaret texting God, following by an ellipsis in a message bubble. In 1998, Blume updated the novel herself, changing Margaret and her friends from using 'sanitary' napkins with belts, to disposable pads. Judy Blume ’s books have won hundreds of awards. She is the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives in Key West and New York City. You can visit her at www.judyblume.com .
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- Seller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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- Seller's Inventory #
- LPB008478JB
- Title
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- Author
- Blume, Judy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0878880224
- ISBN 13
- 9780878880225
- Publisher
- Bradbury Press
- Place of Publication
- Scarsdale
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Young Adult;
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- FFEP
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- Book Club Edition
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- Title Page
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- Spine
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