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more about #comingofage more comments → SomeAuthorGirl: I am sooooo thrilled that Fine Lines is back, thank you! I too was incredibly surprised when I got my period and there were no belts. I remember my mo... more » the_wiggle: awesome book! made getting "it" much more tolerable. now if someone would please point out a book of the same caliber for my 12yr old son. . . . more » CherriSpryte: Wow - I don't remember the religion aspects of this book AT ALL. I do remember Nancy's postcard being a lie, and the belts. Not much else, though. The... more » bobloblaw: AHH Fine Lines you're back, yay!!! I seriously only just read Are Your There God It's Me Margaret very recently, like a couple months ago, along with ... more » cheshirecounty: Damn! I read that "Why me?" book. The girl's name was Rachel, and she was adopted. I remember it because she she was so severely limited to what she c... more » TheFormerJuneBronson: I haven't read this in so long, but I nearly wore out the copy I got when I was 7 or 8. My mother didn't know what I was reading, and thank God for it... more » Kate.the.Great: Wow I haven't thought about this book in a while. Sidenote: I kept reading "Farbrook" as "Facebook" and knew technology had ruined my life. After I re... more » Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: Anybody read The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George? I had forgotten the title and all until I googled some keywords just a minute ago, but it wa... more » Maulleigh: This is one of my favorite "swears." I actually said it out loud at the ATM the other day. "Dear God! It's Me Margaret!" I always think about how Marg... more » GatsbysLover: AYTGIMM was such an awesome book. I just re-read it, and JB really did nail exactly what it felt like to be that age, at least the way that I felt. My... more » linnyt is a walking cliché: Am I the only American woman to have not read this book? more » BillyPilgrimisnotmylover: Plotfinder # 3- "A Deadly Game of Magic" by Joan Lowery Nixon. more » Aesop's Foibles. YES.: ALRIGHT!!!! FINE MF'N LINES!!! Sorry to be with the yelling but I has an excitement!!! YAAAAYYYYY!!!! BOOK NERDS HUZZAH IN UNISON!!! Anyway. I remembe... more » hollygirl: nancy was the original " mean girl". I read this book a million times. I didn't get my period until I turned 14, and almost no one I knew had it in 5t... more » BillyPilgrimisnotmylover: Plotfinder #2 is definitely bringing to mind Lurlene McDaniel's stuff, and the adopted thing was a part of "Mother, Help Me Live," but that book was a... more » -
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret: How Have I Not Written About This Book Yet?
Welcome to 'Fine Lines', the feature where we give a sentimental look at the YA books we loved in our youth. This week, Lizzie Skurnick tackles Judy Blume's 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.'
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