Judy Blume
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English
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"In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere,...
4) Superfudge
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English
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Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
5) Double Fudge
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English
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His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter Hatcher.
8) Blubber
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English
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Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
10) Freckle juice
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56 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.
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108 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.
14) Tiger eyes
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217 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City.
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150 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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There is a lot going on in his life that thirteen-year-old Tony Miglione does not really understand--like why his parents suddenly have money enough to buy a house on Long Island, why his mother has changed, why his rich friend Joel shoplifts, why he is obsessed with Joel's sixteen-year-old sister, and why he is having terrible stomach pains.
17) Smart women
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xii, 354 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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B.B. and Margo, two forty-year-old divorcees, are unprepared for the frustrations, pain, and passion which arise when B.B.'s ex-husband hits town, in a story about a complex romantic triangle.
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1 audio disc (37 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Freckle Juice: Andrew envies his classmate's freckles. But when another classmate offers him the recipe for her secret freckle juice, Andrew finds himself in a hilarious heap of trouble. The one in the middle is the green kangaroo: second grader Freddy Dissel tries to prove himself to his friends and family.
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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For over fifty years, Judy Blume's classic has connected with readers through its relatable story, achingly funny details, and candid exploration of life's biggest questions. In Lionsgate's big-screen adaptation, eleven-year-old Margaret is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who is also struggling...