parents as Blume’s audience, 210–11

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (book), 79–80

My Darling, My Hamburger (Zindel), 79–80, 174

N

National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), 151, 191–93

National Education Association, 32

National Lampoon, 141

National Organization for Women (NOW), 47, 54

“The Nature of Prejudice” (school course), 186

Netflix, 212

“new” American girl theme, 80. see also Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Blume)

New England Free Press, 70

Newsday (New York City), 133

New York City Department of Education, 204–5, 208

New Yorker magazine, 13, 125

New York Law School Review, 168, 192–93

New York Library Association, 34

New York Public Library, 214

New York Times

on Are You There God? (Blume), 28

bestseller list of, 70, 134

on birth control pill, 76

book challenges/censorship and, 151, 166–67, 169, 173–74, 188

on Deenie (Blume), 71

on Forever (Blume), 102, 104–6

on It’s Not the End of the World (Blume), 57

on The Long Secret (Fitzhugh), 15

Maynard’s article, 104–6, 137

“Recreational—and Procreational—Sex” (Money), 93–94

on Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself (Blume), 120

“What About the Right to Say ‘No’?” (Lee), 86

on Wifey (Blume), 132

“nice girl” image, 45, 81, 88, 91. see also virginity

Nixon, Richard, 47, 69, 183–84

Nordstrom, Ursula, 38

“Not Even for a One-Night Stand” (Rees), 146–49

NYU (New York University), 1, 6–9, 10, 59

O

Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), 186–87

Oh! Calcutta! (play), 27

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (1981), 181–82

“On Being a Banned Writer” (Klein), 185–86, 187

The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo (Blume), 8–9

“The Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh Bird” (Blume), 8

The Open Book (bookstore), 152

Oppenheimer, Robert, 117

Ordinary People (Guest), 186

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (Blume), 142–44

Our Bodies, Ourselves (Boston Women’s Health Collective), 70, 167

Our Subway Baby (Mercurio), 206