Recommend me a Judy Blume book for a 12 year old please.

[MrsMuddle]

I'd like to get a Judy Blume book for my 12-year-old niece for Christmas, because I remember enjoying them at her age. My niece is somewhat worldly wise for her age (I keep my innocent 12 year old DS well out her way!) Which book would you recommend?

The one with the girl with scoloisis, can't remember what it was called.

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check out link - book people have 2 for a fiver on at the moment - I loved all of her books too!

Deenie it's called

That's the one! Deenie, I loved that book.

judy blume - makes me want to snigger. have memories of passing round the forever book during a boring physics lesson in first year with all the good pages bookmarked!!

sorry nothing constructive to offer

Forever is too old for a 12yo - she doesn't need to read of Ralph yet...

But Deenie and Are You There God are fine, imo. I loved those books too. Didn't she write one called Fudge or something too?

Fudge was the younger annoying brother of a preteen (can't remember his name) She did a few with Fudge in them

There's a really sad one about a boy with a terrapin. Let me find it...

tiger eyes is good too

i read all of them at that age.

forever was falling apart at the seams by the time it had been round about 20 of us, 2 or 3 times

There is one where a girl's father was killed and she spent a summer with an alcoholic cousin. Might be a bit depressing though...

I loved Are you there God? But then I wasn't particularly forward at 12 . I read Forever when I was about 13/14 - my sister bought it after being refused it by the children's librarian.

have a look at this
www.judyblume.com/booklist.html

this is making me all nostalgic! I've just remembered that I was given Freckle Juice from a Santa at a party......I ( I was v old when I stopped believing//////

deenie, just as long as we're togther, blubber, are you there god.

loads.

just not forever lol.

Blubber was cruel but so realistic.

It was one of the Fudge books. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (and it was a turtle not a terrapin - his brother eats it).

Thanks everyone. I'll go for Deenie and Are You There... What happens in Forever that makes it so unsuitable? I'm dying to know.

Well MrsMuddle, it's your basic girl meets boy, girl meets boy's penis, "Ralph"story. Sooooo cringy.

Even though it's from a boy's perspective I remember enjoying Then Again Maybe I Won't

Also loved Jean Ure at that age, which was a British Judy Blume
HTH

Ooh, Forever is all about first sexual encounters, my mum wouldn't let me read it when I was 12 but others of my friends did! I loved Are You There God and Deenie and think they are really good choices for your gift. Cringey anecdote: When I broke my arm I wrote to Judy Blume and asked her to sign a sticker to stick on my cast!!! she sent it back and I smudged it to prove it was real - still have it in some old notebook!!! Oh cringe...

oh and 'letters to judy' is all about kids addicted to 'pot' and prob not quite right for a 12yo.
took me years to figure out what the hell pot was. i had smoked it myself before i realised what it meant!!