Judy Blume

Fudge, otherwise known as Farley Drexel hatcher, wants to be a bird when he grows up . As far as his older brother, Peter, is concerned, the only thing he will grow up to be is a big pain. But nothing is ever simple for sixth-grader Peter Hatcher, Dealing with Fudge has been hard enough, and now Peter has a whole new set of problems. His parents have decided to move to New Jersey for a whole year. What's more, Peter's mom is going to have a baby....

His younger brother Fudge's obsession with money and an unexpected encounter with twin cousins Flora and Fauna and a weird younger cousin also named Farley Drexel Hatcher, just like Fudge, provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.

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, she...

When an African American family with three children moves into her white neighborhood, eleven-year-old Winnie learns the difference between being a good neighbor and being a good friend.

Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.

Second-grader Freddy hates being the middle one in the family until he gets a part in the school play.

Further adventures of first-grader Jake "the Pain" and his sister, third-grader Abigail "the Great One," include a trip to the beach with Grandma, to a county fair with Aunt Diana, and to a mall with Dad.

A summer in Tarrytown, N.Y., is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she doesn't want to admit.

While spending the winter of 1947-1948 in Miami Beach with her family, ten-year-old Sally makes up stories, casts herself in starring roles in movies, and encounters a sinister stranger.

When her parents divorce, a sixth grader struggles to understand that sometimes people are unable to live together.