Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

from ehansman

How did you feel when you just moved to a new place? Well, Sally Freedman had a hard time to find her way in Miami Beach, Florida. They were just sooooooooooo happy that the world war was over, but that doesn't make Sally think that a really nice man in the neighborhood is Adolf Hitler. She has H...

from aimless22

Judy Blume calls this her most autobiographical story. An interesting childhood it must have been. Just after the end of WWII, all the family, except the father, move to Miami Beach for the winter months. THe two children change schools, must make new friends, must learn to live together in a sma...

from Peguses

A wonderful book! I highly recomend this book to all whom are 10-13. Delightfuly funny Sally Freedman and all her adventures while she is wintering in florida, and discovering all the amazing trouble a girl with a big imagination and a natural talent for trouble.

from delphica

(#44 in the 2005 book challenge) This one was for book club. Wow, I forgot that Judy Blume is a famous writer for a reason. I tend to forget because her adult books are so bad, and a lot of her kids books are so dated, but when she's on, she's really on. This is the most autobiographical of her b...

from lycomayflower

A book I read three or four (or more?) times when I was a kid. Stumbled across it in a used book shop this past week and couldn't leave it there. A good exploration of early adolescence and the ways adults keep secrets from children as well as an interesting (remembered) snapshot of American chil...