Trying to remember an old Judy Blume favourite

[RustyPaperclip]

I remember reading the odd Judy Blume book when I was younger and I really enjoyed them, one in particular, but for the life of me I can't remember the name. Briefly tried googling but hoping you wise lot can help.

From what I remember as a child, the main character grew up around the time of WW2. I think her father might have been a dentist. I remember something at the beginning about playing Cowboys and Indians and also Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The family moved at some point and the girl was convinced a new neighbour was Hitler.

Now I have written it down it sounds blood weird but I loved it when I was young and would like to read it again. Cheers

[guerre]

Thirding Ramona! Again, we had a boxed set, probably from TBP.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

I was about 10 when I read Are You There God It's Me Margaret. It would definitely feature in my My Life In Books style articles you seen in the weekend papers.

[pinkpepperpod]

Just ordered the supermouse trilogy after being reminded of them. My daughter is 14, and probably too old, but is a dancer, and loves Judy Blume, so I think she'll enjoy them. I don't think I've read the third one, so will be having a read when she's finished.

[Kilmeny]

I loved Jean Ure's early books, Proper Little Nooryeff and If It Weren't For Sebastian. Nicola Mimosa was great too. Also all the Dicey books by Cynthia Voight. I still have some of Jaqueline Wilsons much earlier books which are quite dark.

[SeekEveryEveryKnownHidingPlace]

Supermouse trilogy?? What else happens? I never got past Nicola Mimosa!

Kilmeny I've got early JWs too - Waiting For The Sky To Fall, This Girl, Amber, that one with the deeply transparent fairy stories written by the girl in love with her teacher, The Other Side.... I loved her writing before she went for the younger market, but clearly she hit the ££££s with Tracy Bloody Beaker!

[Kilmeny]

Waiting For The Sky To Fall was possibly my favourite book as a teenager along with Daphne's Book by Mary Downing Hahn. I didn't realise it was even the same JW when my daughter got into her books! The early ones were much better

[Kilmeny]

Was there another book after Nicola Mimosa, pinkpepperpod?

[zgaze]

Judy Blume has written a few adult novels which are well worth tracking down and reading if you liked her teen stuff - Wifey, Smart Women and Summer Sisters. All very racy in a seventies way

[FlowerOfTheWest]

hazelnutlatte, the books about the teenagers on the island were the Making Out series by Katherine Applegate. I have still got my copies, plus some others I bought as an adult to try and complete the set, I'm still missing some though.
I also loved Jacqueline Wilson's early novels, I'm quite surprised they haven't been reprinted given her current sucess. I've still got all them too.
Probably the only series I loved as a kid that I haven't re-read as an adult is the Drina ballerina series, have never even seen the books in a second hand shop and they were £££ on line when last I looked!

[Sammysquiz]

My favourite Judy Blume was 'Just as long as we're together' about three friends, one of whom was very gifted. Also loved Tiger Eyes, it was so sad though!

[FlowerOfTheWest]

Sammysquiz there is a sequel to that one called Here's to You Rachel Robinson.

[marshmallowpies]

What an awesome thread - I remember the Jean Ure books, very vaguely, but the mention of sisters called Nicola and Rose brought it all back!

Friendship groups of 3 seem to crop up a lot in YA books - I remember A Bottled Cherry Angel about 3 girls called Midge, Match and Emma, where 2 of the girls turn on the other and start bullying her, and All Ends Up about 3 girls who fall out over boys (I think?) but one ends up inheriting a house by the sea that belonged to her great-aunt or grandma. Both books I really remember liking at the time.

I also loved the early JW books - The Other Side I read over and over, I was really disappointed when JW started writing what I considered very inferior books for younger readers, I felt like she was my secret favourite writer and suddenly she was everywhere.

[Dancergirl]

sammy there was also another book - Here's to you Rachel Robinson, same friends, written through one of the other girl's eyes.

Tiger Eyes is a fantastic book.

[winewolfhowls]

As soon as I saw the thread I thought I must I must I must increase my bust!

I loved point horrors they were a series of horror books with titles like the babysitter, the yearbook, the lifeguard. Very American!

[NapoleonsNose]

I loved Judy Blume as a teenager and Starring Sally J Freedman is definitely one of my favourites. Must re-read it again soon. I've also recently read Judy's new novel for adults, In the Unlikely Event, which I enjoyed too.

[turdfairynomore]

I loved the Joan Lingard books about Kevin and Sadie....The Twelfth Day of July, Across the Barricades etc. I used to wonder if they were only available in NI!!! NI at that time could be a scary place....I live(d) in a relatively peaceful co down small town, but bomb scares, bag searches, being frisked, town centres being "control zones" at night (most towns used big gates and were closed to traffic overnight), TV programmes being interrupted to alert keyhokders to go back to certain places to check for incendiary devices etc etc were everyday occurrences. To see them and read about them in the storyline of books was fascinating and very powerful.

[pinkflowerbluesky]

Ah Hope House - that was a cheery series!

I remember Losing David about HIV, one about a girl with cystic fibrosis, the anorexia one ... Misery lit for teens!

I was a fan of JW in the day. Loved The Dream Palace.

[QueenofLouisiana]

I loved these books- Sally J Freeman was a great insight into the racially segregated US. Was 'Then Again a Maybe I won't" the one with the brother who'd died in Vietnam? And the friend's sister who liked to get undressed by the window? Loved that too- very useful to see the male point of view, especially as I had no Dad or brothers at home.

[HixieRice]

Paula Danziger was more light-hearted, wasn't she? Or is that just the way I remember them? Loved the one at summer camp in log cabins!

[Kinneret]

Judy Blume was a fantastic writer, and very very bold. I loved the way she headbutted every possible taboo - sex, politics, religion, death - and wove it all into such brilliant teenage stories that you never felt talked at. Genius.

[Pipbin]

I loved Judy Blume.
Did anyone else read Francine Pascal Hanging Out With Cici when a girl goes back in time and becomes friends with her mother?

[Taytocrisps]

I read a lot of Judy Blume in my time. I also loved two books by Beverly Cleary - 'Fourteen and Freckles' and 'Fifteen'. They perfectly described the awkwardness of the teenage years - the agony and the ecstasy of those years. I'd love to read them again.

[MissRabbitHasTooManyJobs]

Omg I need all of these Judy Blume books again- nostalgia :)

Right I need help with a book search please, I'm beginning to think I'm imagining I read it-
Briefly- a woman loses her daughter ( she died ) then sets up an accident to steal a girl who looks similar. I can remember the woman was very wealthy and the substitute girl wasn't.
I recall the surname Considine? Possible other names Camilla? Susanna?
It has been driving me mad for years.
It was definitely a children's/teens book.
Anyone??
Thanks in advance and sorry for hijack

[Taytocrisps]

Actually, I've been googling and I think the 'Fourteen' book might be by a different author. 'Freckled and Fourteen' is by Viola Rowe.

[RustyPaperclip]

Zgaze I had idea she had written any adult books! Who doesn't love a seventies racy novel