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Happy Birthday, Judy!

Celebrate award-winning American author Judy Blume's birthday on February 12th and rediscover the influential titles that remain popular with generations of readers!

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  • Katherine and Michael are in love, and Katherine knows it's forever. But when they're separated for the summer, she begins to have feelings for another boy. What does this say about her love for Michael? And what does "forever" mean,…
    BookNew York : Atheneum, 2024. — YA F BLU
  • For over fifty years, Judy Blume's classic has connected with readers through its relatable story, achingly funny details, and candid exploration of life's biggest questions. In Lionsgate's big-screen adaptation, eleven-year-old Margaret…
    DVDSanta Monica, California : Lionsgate, [2023] — F ARE
  • Sandy Pressman is a nice suburban wife whose boredom is getting the best of her. She could be making friends at the club, like her husband keeps encouraging her to do. Or working on her golf game. Or getting her hair done. But for some…
    eBook[S.l.] : Penguin Group US, 2012.
  • Two women from very different families become inseparable companions during summers on Martha's Vineyard during their coming-of-age years, forging the bonds of a lifelong friendship that weathers growing up, marriage, children, careers,…
    BookNew York : Bantam Books, 2023. — F BLU
  • The Genius of Judy

    How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

    Bergstein, Rachelle,
    Offers an intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume's life, work and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic--and controversial--young adult novels, from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret to Blubber.
    BookNew York : One Signal Publishers, Atria, 2024. — B BLUME JUDY
  • In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes…
    Large PrintNew York : Random House Large Print, [2015] — LP F BLU
  • When an African American family with three children moves into her white neighborhood, eleven-year-old Winnie learns the difference between being a good neighbor and being a good friend.
    eBookNew York : Yearling, [2004], c1970.
  • Two thirtysomethings try to find their way through the complications of post-marriage love in this beloved novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Judy Blume. Margo and B.B. are each divorced, and each is trying to reinvent her…
    Streaming Audiobook[New York] : Penguin Audio, 2019.
  • Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.
    eBookNew York : Yearling, c1974.
  • I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected. I wonder if she knows that at least one of her books made a grown woman finally feel like she'd been a normal girl all along. . . ."--Everything I Needed to Know About…
    eBookNew York : Pocket Books, 2007.
  • When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf…
    eBookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2009].
  • When her parents divorce, a sixth grader struggles to understand that sometimes people are unable to live together.
    eBookNew York : Delacorte Press, c2003.
  • Stephanie's relationship with her best friend, Rachel, changes during her first year in junior high as she tries to conceal a family problem and meets a new girl from California.
    eBookNew York : Delacorte Press, c1987.
  • Learn how Judy Blume went from a stay-at-home mother to one of the most beloved American authors of the twentieth century. Readers adore Judy Blume for her personal stories about the journey from childhood to adolescence. She has always…
    BookNew York, New York : Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018. — J B BLUME JUDY
  • When Deenie finds out that she has scoliosis, she's scared. When she sees the brace for the first time, she wants to scream. But the words won't come out. And Deenie, beautiful Deenie, who everyone says should be a model, is stuck wearing…
    eBookNew York : Delacorte Press, c2003.
  • There is a lot going on in his life that thirteen-year-old Tony Miglione does not really understand--like why his parents suddenly have money enough to buy a house on Long Island, why his mother has changed, why his rich friend Joel…
    eBookNew York : Delacorte Press, c2003.
  • Expelled from boarding school, Charles' presence at home proves disruptive, especially for sister Rachel, a gifted seventh grader juggling friendships and school activities.
    Streaming AudiobookNew York : Listening Library, 2011.