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Judy Blume · 1970
A twelve-year-old girl navigates the challenges of growing up, moving to New Jersey, and choosing a religion while confiding in her private conversations with God. The novel captures the voice of a young protagonist grappling with adolescence, friendship, and identity.
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A girl negotiates puberty, peer belonging, and unanswered prayer, discovering that growing up is its own kind of faith crisis.
faith-and-doubt
Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. Please help me grow God. You know where. Which way am I supposed to go? I don't know what you want me to do.
YTG-005Who needs religion? Who! Not me … I don't need it. I don't even need God! I was never going to talk to God again.
YTG-002I thought, so what if God's mad at me. Who cares? I even tested him by crossing the street against the light. Nothing happened.
YTG-011embodiment
Would anyone know my secret? Would it show? Now I am growing for sure. Now I am almost a woman! Are you still there God?
YTG-001I stood naked in front of the mirror. I was starting to get some hairs. I shoved three cotton balls into each side of my bra. Well, so what if it was cheating!
YTG-004self-and-identity
Gretchen, my friend, got her period. I'm so jealous God. I hate myself for being so jealous. Oh please God. I just want to be normal.
YTG-009Illuminates
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