Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret: A Meaningful, Wonderful, Enjoyable Book
To say "Are You There God? It's me Margaret" taught me a lot would be an understatement. This book has to be my favorite book of all time. For me, I've read lot's of books, but this one helped me in ways that no other book had. This book showed me that reading could be fun and interesting. After I read it, I started to read more and and more. And no matter how hard I look or search I've never found a book quite like it. I never found I book that capture the honesty and ups and downs of girlhood and not being a kid anymore, but not being a teenager yet. This book is something I think every kid should read. It's awesome.
Summary
Now, really don't wanna go over too much of this book. Since i'd love for you to read this book for yourself and get your own opinion on it, but I will go over just a small bit of it. Okay so this book follows 11 year old Margaret Simon. Margaret and her family just moved from New York to the suburbs of New Jersey. Margaret is less then pleased with this choice and for the very first times, prays to god that it won't be too bad. Margaret really doesn't wanna leave her school and especially her grandma behind. When Margaret and her family finally move into her new house it isn't soon after a girl comes to her door who is her age. She says that the whole neighborhood knows who her family is because of a letter sent in the mail to them. They talk about school and how they are going to be in the same class. This girl's name is Nancy Wheeler (NOT A STRANGER THINGS REFERENCE I SWEAR), she invites Margret over to go hang out and go though her sprinkler. Since Margaret can't find her bathing suit Nancy says she can barrow hers. During this part of the book we really can see some of the topics that will be most prevalent during the story. During this part Margaret and Nancy are in the ladder's bedroom. Nancy tells Margaret to just change in the bedroom. She is a little off put about this (I WOULD BE TOO) but does. They talk about boys and makeup and bras. Margaret feels out of place since Nancy thinks it's strange she's never kissed a boy before and doesn't have bigger (ya know whats) because she's from New York and is supposed to look more mature??? Eventually in the book Margaret meets the rest of Nancy's friends and joins their secret club. A lot of this book follows Margaret as she tries to fit in. She wants to become more grown and that means getting her period and getting bigger (ya know whats). But as the book goes on we see that that's what all the other girls in the club want . We also see Margaret tackle finding a religion that she wants to follow. Since she was never raised with a specific one because Margaret's mother grew up Christian and her father and grandmother are Jewish, with her grandmother being more religious than her father.
What I Liked
Um... Everything. I loved pretty much this whole book. The reading experience I had while reading this wasn't like any other I'd ever had. I liked the characters and their personalities, I liked the plot points, I liked the start of the book, I liked the ending of the book. I liked It all. The whole 160 pages. It's all just so well put together and just so...awesome. So I guess I'll just put what I should've been changed here too. Um, the book should've been longer, that's all.
Adaption
This book had a 2023 movie adaptation, that I loved. What can I say. All they did in the book was get rid of some characters that didn't have too much to do with the plot and they really focused more on Margaret's mom. I loved how they did this since we didn't really know her in the book. But now we got to see how life as a women is after your tween and teenage years. We also got to see the unfair expectations that other women can place on each other. It was just nice to see the relationship between Margaret and her mother grow. But that new plot didn't even take away from the original new plot. This movie followed the book to a T and did everything it should've done. (not to mention that Rachel McAdams is in this movie and so is Kathy Bates so that's a big plus).
Conclusion
10\10. Just perfect. This book was perfect. That's all I need to say. I couldn't get a enough of it. If only the book was longer. Just like 50 more pages that's all I need. I guess this was another win for Judy Blume and her awesome, great, classic books. I really suggest reading this book. It taught me a lot and kinda prepared me for middle school when I read it. I hope that you can enjoy this book as much as I did while reading it.
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