Everything
I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume
What
did you learn about being
a girl from Judy Blume?
Have each member of your Book
Club bring a highlighted passage from her favorite Judy Blume
book to read out loud to the group. Then, take turns answering
the following questions:
1. Why
was this book your favorite Judy Blume book?
2. When you re-read
the book, what were your reactions? Did you find that the story,
the characters, and the feelings it evoked were the same as what
you remembered?
- Which Judy Blume characters did you most identify with in
childhood?
- Which characters do you most identify with now?
- Do you think Judy Blume's characters and the issues they
face are timeless, or would they seem dated today?
- Why do you think Judy Blume's books had such an impact on
their young readers when they were first published?
- Of the essays in EVERYTHING, which one did you most identify
with and why?
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