Trying to remember an old Judy Blume favourite

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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

Chessie - thank you! This has been driving me mad for ages. Off to Amazon...

Yes nodifyoucanhearme it's called the Tillerman series. I loved them so much, so evocative.

Nodifyoucanhearme Homecoming is the first book - there is 7 in total. Book 2 Dicey's Song will always be my favourite.

trevortrevorslatterfry I loved Tunes For A Small Harmonica. I still have some of those books. Night Kites was my favourite.

My people! Judy Blume, Lois Duncan, SVH, Tunes for A Small Harmonica, Anastasia, The Tillerman Cycle, Sadlers Wells...

I also love the Trebizon books which were set at a boarding school, some books about Lizzy (?) from Cornwall who went to music school to play the violin.

There was also a book set in the future and gymnastics is the mist popular spectator sport, but I can't remember it. Does it ring a bell with any one else?

There was also a book set in the future and gymnastics is the most popular spectator sport,

The Fortunate Few - Tim Kennemore.

Loved that, haven't read it for years.

I've read and loved most of these books! I've just introduced my dd (9) to the Fudge books and she's loving them too.

Does anyone remember the trilogy of The Face on the Milk Carton? It was about a girl who realised she'd been abducted when she saw a picture of herself on a missing poster! The first one covered her trying to find out what had happened, the second introduced her 'other' family and the third involved a boyfriend (Reeve?) and a radio show.....

I had no idea that was a trilogy! I've only read the first one. Thanks, oldspeckled.

Like I remember, I think it was maybe Deenie, there was stuff about masturbation that I only understand now. I didn't at the time

Same, I think they described it as rubbing a special place when she was in bed, I thought they meant on the bedcovers or something, the way a toddler will twiddle their comfort blanket when falling asleep. Took years for the penny to drop .

IPity the Lizzie books are Lizzie Oliver and Lizzie's Luck by Catherine Robinson.

Oldspeckled and threesounds in fact there's 5 books plus an e-book novella about Janie (by Caroline B Cooney) which started with The Face On The Milk Carton. Then it's Whatever Happened to Janie, The Voice On The Radio, What Janie Found, What Janie Saw, and Janie Face to Face.

Thank you Methren and Chessie!

I'd also read the early Jacqueline Wilson books mentioned upthread, Waiting for the Sky to Fall and The Other Side, I liked them, but I found them quite downbeat, so it was a surprise she went on to become this massive author.

Does anyone else remember a trilogy of books set in the North about a teenage girl whose mother disappears and then in the third book she comes back?

Loved this thread, so many of my favourites on here.

Just bumping to see if anyone has any idea of what this book might be. I first read it at school when I was 11 in 1990 but I this it was published earlier than that as I remember the book being tatty. Maybe published in the 60s or 70s. It was about a girl whose family moved house. They ended up living in a big country style house, or maybe they lived next door to it. The girl and her sister would visit a neighbour to read aloud to him. I think they read Ivanhoe. There was some element of time slip or time travel and I vaguely remember two elderly great aunties (I think)

It's not Charlotte Sometimes but it reminded me of the same feel as that book if that makes sense?

I bought Nicola Mimosa and Play Nimrod
for Him by Jean Ure after reading this thread. Wonderful rereading them.

Play Nimrod For Him is absolute genius.

Has anyone read Changing Times, by Tim Kennemore? I love that book.

I remember Lizzie's Luck and Lizzie Oliver - she gets too big for her boots and acts up in an English lesson about Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I remember that they say 'how mizzy for you' about bad things, but it's annoying me that I can't remember what they say when things are good!

sorry Hippy that one doesn't ring a bell!

srslylikeomg
I can't work out how to tag, is the book you're looking for Dear Clare, My Ex Best Friend? (Loved that book!)

OMG The Face on the Milk Carton! She had long red curls.

Loved that one.

And The Year Without Michael. Michael is Jody's brother and he disappears one day. I was heartbroken reading that.

I read Tiger Eyes and Are you there God? It's me Margaret today.

Must have been a new edition because I'm sure Margaret bought sanitary towels that required a belt! I think the ending was different too.

Enjoyed both though.

Margaret buying a sanitary belt that required a belt is one of the most memorable things about that book! For me at least. I couldn't figure out how that worked at all.

Hippymama it wasn't Moondial was it? She went to live in a big house in the country, and there was an aunt and some timeslipping?

Or The House in Norham Gardens? There was an old house, two elderly aunts and a spot of timeslipping too. I don't think she has a sibling though.

More timeslip ideas here www.goodreads.com/list/show/72120.Timeslip_in_Children_s_Fiction

Elbo7 thank you thank you thank you! I am so delighted you have remembered it!!! It was Dear Clare! I have tears in my eyes I am so glad! (I need to get a grip clearly!) THANK YOU! :) :)

I remember a series of books that all had a "woo" factor to them. One was called Daughters of Eve I think, where some girls went to a school and were taught how to channel the spirit of dead artists, so they could recreate their art. Another one, a girl astrally projecting and someoen else jumped inside her body, and another one involved an evil, identical girl convincing a family she was their daughter. Think there was another where a woman & her child married a man, and his daughter thought they were weird and it turns out they never aged and had been alive a very long time. All sound sinister, but I loved them!

Ok, just found the above books discussed on page 6

I loved Play Nimrod For Him! I read a similar feeling book called Hamlet, Bananas and All That Jazz.

I seem to have read a lot of books about dead friends

Two others - one called the Cuckoo Sister, a girls whose baby sister is kidnapped as a baby from her pram, then returns as a teenager but she is all common and loud (they are very middle class). I can't remember if it was really her sister or not.

Another was a series, about a girl in the 50s I think. She and all her siblings are named after flowers, even her brother Sweet William. She gets measles or something and has to go into a quarantine hospital, and she meets a naughty but fun girl who sends her a card on her birthday that says "With Deepest Sympathy".