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Forever Award-winning author/illustrator

by Judy Blume (author)

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The book of secret knowledge every teen has to read to come of age. Yes, you do. Are Michael and Katherine ready for sex? What about forever? Hurray: it’s forty years old and still as juicy, true, fresh and brave as ever. The coming-of-age classic that moved all the YA boundaries. (And helped millions of lovestruck teens set their own.) Katherine and Michael have passion. Their feelings are electric. But they want real love, too. When they know it’s serious, they have sex. But does true love always last a lifetime? First love, first sex, first heartbreak. Grab your ‘do not disturb’ sign. Every teen has to read Forever. You’ll never forget the first time…

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Product Details

Catalogue number

934 in UK Teen Summer 2018

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781447281047

Publisher

Macmillan Children's Books

Date published

January 1st, 2015

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Judy Blume

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother — and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. I didn’t know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I made up stories while I bounced a ball against the side of our house. I made up stories playing with paper dolls. And I made them up while I practiced the piano by pretending to give piano lessons. I even kept a notebook with the names of my pretend students and how they were doing. I always had an active imagination. But I never wrote down any of my stories. And I never told anyone about them.

When I grew up, my need for storytelling didn’t go away. So when my own two children started preschool I began to write and I’ve been writing ever since! My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.

Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that’s where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for Tiger Eyes. I also spent two years in Connecticut, where Just as Long as We’re Together and Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson are set. And Fudge-A-Mania grew out of a summer spent in Maine. I don’t think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well.

Now I live in New York City and Key West, Florida, with my husband, George Cooper, who writes nonfiction. He thinks I’m lucky because I get to make things up. I think it would be fun to do research and discover stories, like George. Between us, we have three grown children and one incredible grandchild, whose first word was “book”! That makes sense since we all love to read to him.