Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

"Anything by Judy Blume (specifically 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' and 'Forever . . . ')."

"the book that pierced my sense of otherness and made me realize that I wasn't alone or unique in the way I felt about myself and the world."

"When my mother came home with a freshly published hardcover of "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" when I was 7, it was my first encounter with realism... and that's when I got the idea that I didn't just want to read books, I wanted to write them."