Deenie by Judy Blume

››› Get audio book for free. ‹‹‹ Original Title: Deenie ISBN: ISBN13: Autor: Judy Blume (Goodreads Author) Rating: 4.6 of 5 stars (4921) counts Original Format: Mass Market Paperback, 143 pages Download Format: PDF, FB2, MOBI, MP3. Published: 1978 / by Dell / (first published 1973) Language: English Genre(s): Young Adult- 392 users Fiction- 173 users

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Description: A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.

About Author:

Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Blubber; Just as Long as We're Together; and the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge. She has also written three novels for adults, Summer Sisters; Smart Women; and Wifey, all of them New York Times bestsellers. More than 80 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into thirty-one languages. She receives thousands of letters a year from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concerns with her. Judy received a B.S. in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year the American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. Other recognitions include the Library of Congress Living Legends Award and the 2004 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is the founder and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable and educational foundation. She serves on the boards of the Author's Guild; the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators; the Key West Literary Seminar; and the National Coalition Against Censorship. Judy is a longtime advocate of intellectual freedom. Finding herself at the center of an organized book banning campaign in the 1980's she began to reach out to other writers, as well as teachers and librarians, who were under fire. Since then, she has worked tirelessly with the National Coalition Against Censorship to protect the freedom to read. She is the editor of Places I Never Meant To Be, Original Stories by Censored Writers.

Judy has completed a series of four chapter books -- The Pain & the Great One -- illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson. She has co-written and produced a film adaptation of her book Tiger Eyes, and is currently writing a new novel. Judy and her husband George Cooper live on islands up and down the east coast. They have three grown children and one grandchild.

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Rewiews:

Jun 04, 2016 Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* Rated it: it was amazing

Shelves: a-own-book-form, young-adult, read-more-than-once, cover-love, reviewed, got-in-2016 The brace looks like the one Dr. Kliner showed us three weeks earlier. It's the ugliest thing I ever saw. I have to give the story credit - to my adult mind this vintage YA is still five stars. I read it at least three times growing up, but reading again was not boring in the slightest. Some of it came back to me, most I'd forgotten. It starts a little awkward but settles in fast thanks to Judy Blume's talented hand. She keeps the wording simple and the sentences short, but she's able to convey a The brace looks like the one Dr. Kliner showed us three weeks earlier. It's the ugliest thing I ever saw. I have to give the story credit - to my adult mind this vintage YA is still five stars. I read it at least three times growing up, but reading again was not boring in the slightest. Some of it came back to me, most I'd forgotten. It starts a little awkward but settles in fast thanks to Judy Blume's talented hand. She keeps the wording simple and the sentences short, but she's able to convey a wide range of emotion in doing this. Deenie would be an invaluable book for someone that age having to struggle with the diagnosis of scoliosis and wearing that life-changing brace for four years - it's inspirational, it feels real, and it's encouraging. Deenie isn't perfect - Blume rarely writes characters who are - but the short hand she's dealt in life does have the positive purpose of transforming her outlook on other people who also have issues. It changes the way she sees Barbara with her eczema, the 'special needs kids', and the elderly woman with the hunchback. I know some may see this as a condition she received to teach her a lesson, that there are those different from her, but I prefer to think the author meant that by a coincidence Deenie was able to open her eyes further when she herself receives the unsettling diagnosis. I don't think the event was created to make Deenie change - I just think the author showed how events like this can make people change in positive ways. Masturbation isn't discussed too much, but it's brought up a few times, including Deenie writing an anonymous question about it to the gym coach. I'm so saddened this book has been banned before because it discusses this just to say there's no shame. In 2004, the American Library Association labeled Blume the second most censored author in the past 15 years. Here is a good article discussing the issues of why Deenie has been so banned. Read these endearing children's letters about this and the aftermath to Judy Blume on this website, it was illuminating. Do normal people touch their bodies before they go to sleep and it is all right to do that? (p 82) Blume could have just written about an average girl getting scoliosis, but she threw in another issue some teens will relate to - parents who try to shape their kids into what they want them to be. Mothers who separate children by talents. "Deenie's the beauty, Helen's the brain." In fact, Blume based the inspiration off of meeting a 14 year old girl who wore a brace and was adjusting, but her mother was the one on tears and coping poorly. The book wins because it's not focusing on a certain condition, but an unchangeable event that will make a kid feel even more different than they already do. It touches briefly upon (and it was amusing really) masturbation and questions about this as well. It shows how some people stand

out as different due to conditions, but that everyone is still the same and to be treated well. It's a short book but it holds a powerful punch. Especially great for teenage minds who already feel isolated because of their age and those pesky hormones. 37 likes 7 comments