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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, how I do miss the 1970 edition of this book.  Somehow the cute little cover girl of the new edition, what with the sparkling eyes and her head in the clouds, doesn't express the loneliness and contemplative nature of Miss M. in the same way the little girl with lank brown hair and brown knee soc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14170212">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book again very recently as part of a program in which volunteers help teach childen and adults  who have difficulty with reading and comprehension to read for understanding and ulimately enjoyment.  <br/><br/>The girl I was reading with was very moved by the book.  I guess, I had take...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340052">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book while living in Greece and listening to Kasey Casem's top forty. I remember that &quot;Total Eclipse of the Heart&quot; was the number one song and I also remember Casey telling the story of Bonnie Tyler's vocal dramedy and comeback. What does it have to do with this book? Um, not m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1570083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every Saturday growing up, my mother would drop me off at the public library and wouldn't come back for several hours.  Instead of dwelling on the problem of abandonment, I got lost in the stacks and one day found this book.  I remember loving it and rooting for and identifying with the main charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/406670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book as an adult and found it to be too funny and somewhat nostalgically painful.  i guess that makes it a timeless classic of teen angst!  the only thing i wondered was why everyone cared so much about getting their period.  was it really like this when we were that age?<br/><br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1303491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's difficult for me to assign ratings to books like this.  It's a solid book for pre-teen girls.  I must've read it a long time ago, because I totally remember the &quot;I must, I must, I must increase my bust!&quot; business, but I read it again recently, in the interest of being well-informed ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1567951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the ultimate book that every female, whatever her age, should read AT LEAST once!  It's the charming story of 12 year old Margaret who learns what entering into womanhood is about.  It's everything, we as females, go through from a young girl through the awkwardness of puberty.  IT will make...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3564702">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in the 5th grade and I remember being very embarrassed to check it out (it was very different from the horse books I usually read).  I went home and read it in the confines of my room and hid it from my mom (like she would have cared... n'er a banned book was ever mentioned in our h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15632204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book when I  was in my elementary school. I remembered asking my dad to give me the money to buy this, after I saw the review in Bobo.<br/>I loooove the story back then, and I guess I still do –but I couldn’t find the book at Gramedia these days, since I lost mine to a friend-<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3682186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found it unrealistic the way they all were dying to start their period...please!  I was gratefully the last of my friends to start and was pissed off even then!<br/><br/>Being raised &quot;nothing&quot; like Margaret, with a &quot;religious&quot; grandmother, I could identify with her searching ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24007173">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so i re-read this a couple of years ago, and i still loved it just as much. but they revised little bits in the text to update it! so weird. all that stuff about her getting her period? all the references to the BELT etc. are now gone. i remember that confusing me even back in the day (aka the 80s),...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2228277">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was prohibited from reading Judy Blume books. My parents said so. So, beginning in the seventh grade, I secretly checked them out from the school library and hid in my room and read them instead of doing homework. Ahhh, clandestine reading. This was the first that I read and, though not my favorit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/542882">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember LOVING this book when I first read it as a younger teen. I want to read it again, since the only part of it I can truly remember is &quot;I must, I must, I must increase my bust!&quot;   haha... - I remember thinking why would any girl want to increase the size of her bust? I hated my boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4958480">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="4984578">
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    <body><![CDATA[Re-read this recently for the hell of it and was once again swept away by Blume's talent for capturing the adolescent spirit (god, how awful puberty was). Unfortunately, the newer addition featured some technical updates (women will know what I mean), and I see why they did this, however I think gir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4984578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is often considered a &quot;rite of passage&quot; book for young girls -- a must read, both for those who are about to go through puberty and for those who have been. The story itself dives through a lot of serious topics that kids are often left out of in the discussion process. Parts of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2567209">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="51453849">
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    <body><![CDATA[Another period-fest from Judy Blume. This time centered around Margaret, an 11-year old who is questioning her relationship with God. She wants to believe in him, but doesn't know where to find him. I love the religious open-mindedness of this book, which probably was quite rare when the book was wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51453849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently unearthed a copy of one of my childhood favorites. I like books with the cover they had on them when *I* read them. Mine was purple with a drawn Margaret in an ugly orange dress. I wonder if updated versions of this book forego the sanitary napkin belts business? I'll have to check at a b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18843836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read all of this series several times, each, and also count myself lucky to have experienced the Beverly Cleary Ramona Quimby books, and countless others.  I read so many books as a kid that my mother had to donate many large garbage bags full of books several times a year to the local hospital...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40210684">more...</a>]]></body>
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