The novel “Summer Sisters” by Judy Blume details the lives of two very different women from their grade school years through their tumultuous years of dating and searching for meaning their lives. As children, the two spent their summers together at an island house owned by Caitlin’s family. They were summer sisters who declared a lifetime of love and friendship to one another. Themes in the novel include friendship, romantic love and the dissimilarities in people from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
Perhaps the most popular contemporary author of works for upper elementary to junior high school readers, Judy Blume (born 1938) is the creator of frank, often humorous stories which focus on the emot...
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Whether they find them in the library and read them with their parents, or borrow them from friends and secretly read them alone, young people love Judy Blume books. Millions and millions of sales, te...
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Judy Blume is in a class by herself among writers of books for children and young adults. In less than two decades her books have sold more than thirty million copies. Part of the Blume phenomenon is ...
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Judy Blume
Judy Blume
Judy (Sussman) Blume