Prentice Hall (publisher), 9, 10–17
Presenting Judy Blume (Weidt), 4, 17, 61–62, 80, 85, 109, 215
Pretty Baby (film), 141
Pro-Family Forum, 175–76
puberty, 18–26. see also menstruation
Are You There God? (Blume) on, 18–20, 22–26
Blume’s personal experience and, 19–21
boys’ puberty portrayed in Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (Blume), 39–42, 69, 79, 144, 186
menstruation education and Are You There God? (Blume), 28–29, 32–34, 36–37. see also sex education
“messiness” of childhood, 38–45
publishing industry categories for, 11–15
“Teen-Age Girls” (Life) on, 21–22
Publisher’s Weekly, 12, 121, 122, 185
publishing industry. see also individual names of publishing houses
paperbacks and Blume’s popularity, 101–7
Wifey (Blume) publication, 131–32
young adult (YA) inception, 11–15
Puffin Books, 207
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race
Blume’s audience and, 104
Critical Race Theory controversy, 204–5
divorce and women’s finances, 53–54
early writing by Blume on, 7, 9
literacy and slavery, 209
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself (Blume) on, 119–21
Sundown towns, 152
“welfare queens,” 181
Wifey (Blume) on, 126–27
Ramona the Pest (Cleary), 11
rape, readers’ letters to Blume about, 193
reading, as power, 209. see also censorship
Reagan, Nancy, 165
Reagan, Ronald, xvi, 142, 165–68, 179, 181, 182, 201
“Recreational—and Procreational—Sex” (Money), 93–94
Rees, David, 146–49
Reilly & Lee (publisher), 8–9
religion
Are You There God? (Blume) on, 18–20
Religious Right and censorship, 142, 165–68, 183–84. see also censorship
