Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

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If anyone tried to determine the most common rite of passage for preteen girls in North America, a girl's first reading of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret would rank near the top of the list. Judy Blume and her character Margaret Simon were the first to say out loud (and in a book even) that it is normal for girls to wonder when they are ever going to fill out their training bras. Puberty is a curious and annoying time. Girls' bodies begin to do freakish things--or, as in Margaret's case, they don't do freakish things nearly as fast as girls wish they would. Adolescents are often so relieved to discover that someone understands their body-angst that they miss one of the book's deeper explorations: a young person's relationship with God. Margaret has a very private relationship with God, and it's only after she moves to New Jersey and hangs out with a new friend that she discovers that it might be weird to talk to God without a priest or a rabbi to mediate. Margaret just wants to fit in! Who is God, and where is He when she needs Him? She begins to look into the cups of her training bra for answers ...

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

No one ever told Margaret Simon that eleven-going-on- twelve would be such a hard age. When her family moves to New Jersey, she has to adjust to life in the suburbs, a different school, and a whole new group of friends. Margaret knows she needs someone to talk to about growing up-and it's not long before she's found a solution.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I can't wait until two o'clock God. That's when our dance starts. Do you think I'll get Philip Leroy for a partner? It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome. And I'd love to dance with him... just once or twice. Thank you God.

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Daughters Favorite book.......2007-09-12

My daughter requested this book. She loves it so much, that she has read it a couple of times!

The best book ever!!.......2007-05-18

In the book, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret. Judy Blume has created another fascinating story. It starts out taking place in a small New York apartment, but then Margaret finds out she's moving to Long Island, New Jersey.

When she moves she meets Nancy, Janie, and Gretchen and she is asked to join their secret club that they must not tell anyone about. In this club there are a few "rules" that you must follow for example you must wear a bra to every meeting, you have to keep a list of the boys you like in a book, and tell each other everything about you. The girls ask Margaret about her religion, but since her mom is a Christian and her dad is Jewish, she tells them she doesn't have one and gets to choose for herself when she is older if she wants to of course. On the first day of school her teacher asked them to answer some questions from off the black board. She answers them and then the next day her teacher asks her why she hates religious holidays, then she has to explain the story all over. Is the club something she should be doing? Does she follow the clubs rules? Does she pick a religion? I guess that's for you to find out.

This is and amazing book. It shares the problems that teenage girls face in their every day lives, for example bras, kissing boys, right up to getting their periods.

The girls make going through all these changes hysterical. There view on everything makes them seem more real to girls everywhere. Most of the girls that have read this book that I know have been through or are going through the things talked about in the book. There for girls can really relate to the characters in this book. Most of all I can relate to Margaret, because she sometimes wishes for things she wants that she doesn't have and sometimes I wish for things like that too.

Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book. I wanted to read it over when I finished it. It is full of humor and will make you laugh out loud. At the end of every chapter I just wanted to keep on reading. It's an amazing book and I encourage every pre-teen to teenage girl to read it.
Pre-teen to teenage girls should read this book because most of them will understand what it's talking about. I don't think guys would like to read this book very much, because I like said it talks about the problems girls face. I give this book two thumbs up!

Does Margaret follow the rules for the secret club? Does she figure out her religion? Find out when you read the fun and exciting book Are You There God? It's Me Margaret. Just don't let your brother get his hands on this book.

--Jordyn

A blast from my past!.......2007-04-13

This book was my favorite in elementary school! It speaks of all of the unspoken questions in a young girls mind. Super! Timeless!

Margaret and God.......2007-03-28

This book was very good. I would recommend this book, because it was interesting. It was interesting because it taught me a lot about what I will go through. I think my little cousin, that is nine, would enjoy reading this book. She is a girly girl and would enjoy this book and do what they do. Her name is Jennifer. I would like to read another book by Judy Blume. I think I would read the Ramona books. I would read them because; they show what to do and not to do in life. Her writing style is very good. I understand what she is saying. I like how Judy Blume writes from the main characters point of view.

Natalie's Reveiw.......2007-01-30

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Are you their god? It's me Margaret by Judy bloom is about Margaret Simon a girl with no religion and is moving so I guess you could say no friends. Don't worry when Margaret get to her new home one girl on her new block comes over in her bathing suit to ask if she wants to play. Since Margaret meets Nancy over the summer Nancy tells Margaret to wear no socks with loafers so she can join her club. Of course the girls let her join the club PTS's (pre-teen sensations). In their club they talk about boys, bras, and getting their first periods. Nancy, Janie, Gretchen can't believe Margaret doesn't have a religion because her mother is catholic and her father is Jewish. Margaret's parents said that she can choose when she gets old enough but Margaret doesn't want to wait. So on the first day of school her teacher said they have a yearlong project to write about any thing they want. This is Margaret's chance to choose the religion she wants so she goes to the temple with her grandma and church with Janie.

Margaret was very excited she got her period. When she got it she was excited she got it right before she was going to summer camp she called her mother showed her mother her underpants and her mother ran to get a box of teenage softies and her mother started to explain how to do it and then Margaret told her mother she has been practicing. She was now becoming a woman.

Margaret lives in present time and moved to New Jersey because her parents wanted to have a backyard instead of having an apartment in New York. I think that the lesson in Are you their god? It's me, Margaret. Is their isn't always one choice there's is a bunch. As in Margaret has two religions and doesn't know which one to choose there isn't always one choice there's a bunch.

Are you their god? It's me Margaret. Is an excellent book and is a great book for any 9-13 year old girls. This is mainly a book for girls. Girls if you have any sense you will pick up Are you there god? It's me Margaret. And never want to put it down!!!

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