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Forever... / a novel by Judy Blume.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780689849732
- ISBN: 0689849737
- ISBN: 9781416934004
- ISBN: 1416934006
- ISBN: 9781481414432
- ISBN: 0878880798
- ISBN: 0671410121
- ISBN: 0027110303
- ISBN: 0671695304
- ISBN: 0881031836
- Physical Description: 199 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Scarsdale, N.Y. : Bradbury Press, [1975]
- Copyright: ©1975
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | HL590L Lexile Decoding demand: 93 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 86 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.1 5 23252. |
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| Genre: | Romance fiction. Teen fiction. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Festus Public Library | Y Blume (Text) | 32017000081838 | Young Adult | Available | - |
BookList Review
Forever
Booklist
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Katherine and Michael's romance progresses rapidly from kissing to sexual intercourse after Katherine gets the Pill-- but will their love last forever?
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Kirkus Review
Forever
Kirkus Reviews
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Increasingly Judy Blume's books center on single topics and the topic here, as pronounced in the first sentence, is getting laid. Cath and Michael fall in love when both are high school seniors, and Blume leads up to It date by date and almost inch by inch (hand over sweater, hand under skirt. . .) and then, after the breakthrough, describes each session until the kinks in timing and such are straightened out. (There's also a word for word transcript of her Planned Parenthood interview and a letter from Grandma, who's heard she is ""going steady,"" advising birth control.) For Cath though forever lasts only until her parents send her off to a summer camp job and she finds herself unwillingly attracted to the tennis counsellor she's assisting; Michael takes it without much grace but Cath will never regret one single thing because it was all very special. ""I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever."" As usual with this immensely popular author, Forever has a lot of easy, empathic verity and very little heft. Cath like Blume's other heroines is deliberately ordinary, which means here (despite friends, nice family, etc.) that outside of the love affair she's pretty much a blank. In fact this could be a real magnet for all those girls who took to Are You There God It's Me Margaret just a few years ago and haven't changed all that much since. Another way of looking at Forever is as an updated Seventeenth Summer. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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