Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

I loved this! This is another Blume book I didn't read when I was younger, but I know I would have loved it then. Blume's writing is ever charming and relatable, more so here than in Forever for me. Margaret's comments about her friends, school, and growing up hearken back to when I was that age, when I was having very similar thoughts. I was never the kind of preteen who hoped and hoped to get my period or to wear a bra (wise beyond my years!). I loved all the characters and the things they talked about, especially Margaret's friends and their breast obsession. I pretty much knew going in that I would love the book, but what surprised me were the religious themes. They weren't heavy-handed or partisan at all; they presented themselves naturally, the way a real child would think about them. I'd definitely recommend this to female readers young and old!