Deenie

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Animated underpants and maxi pads accompany voiceovers here and there, but the most successful visuals are of pages from Blume’s correspondences with her readers – fans who wrote on unicorn and rainbow stationery and vouchsafed their darkest secrets to their favorite author. It was a time of life of great excitement and great changes and everything was possible still … when you’re 12,” she says. Though Thelma gives her consent, Frank, who, until then, was rather mute about everything, firmly refuses, rightfully pointing out that Deenie would want to not wear the brace for every special occasion thereafter, if he gave in that night.

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Deenie's mom has two daughters: the pretty one (Deenie) and the smart one (her older sister, Helen). S. Blume’s frank representation of love and physical intimacy was groundbreaking, offering young-adult readers a clear example of empowered sexuality. Did I remember Deenie's preoccupation with intercourse and how startled she is to learn that her 16-year-old sister still hasn't had sex yet? Other recognitions include the Library of Congress Living Legends Award and the 2004 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Daddy's Girl: Deenie's far closer to her father than with her mother, mostly because he doesn't police her diet and posture and gives her breathing room to be a kid. Even better, I get to share it with my daughter, reading it out loud while she squeezes play-slime in her hands. It shows how some people stand out as different due to conditions, but that everyone is still the same and to be treated well. It turns out, I only really remembered that it was a book about a girl who gets diagnosed with scoliosis and has to wear a big, cumbersome back brace.

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Blume clarified with a tweet that her words were taken out of context; her point was that she can empathize with a person who has been harassed online. I think I read another book about a girl with scoliosis when I was a kid: The Girl in the Plastic Cage by Marilyn Levy. which follows an 11-year-old girl as she navigates a move, a new school, and her changing sense of self—will premiere on April 28. With so much Blume-ing (sorry) this spring, I had proposed an interview in Florida; I was already planning an Orlando vacation. Bittersweet Ending: Deenie still has to wear her brace, and her mother refuses to back down on pressuring her and Helen to do what she wants.And in the end, she hasn't changed her mind at all (which is par for the course in most Blume novels).

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She gets invited to a party and tries to go behind her father's back and take her brace off but decides not to leaving a "Take me as I am or leave me.Seven years after its publication, The Globe and Mail reported on a survey that asked Toronto students, Grades 7 to 13, to name their favourite authors. On a personal note, I was diagnosed with scoliosis at the same age as Deenie, and cast with a brace, and I could completely relate to every one of Deenie's reactions, from denial to anger to resistence and so on.

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In 2004, the American Library Association labeled Blume the second most censored author in the past 15 years.I remember being shocked about its existence and, a few chapters later, dismayed to learn that getting your period didn’t just happen once (yes, I was that naive). When she published her novel, Summer Sisters, in 1998, her book tour took her to Toronto, and the radio show I then co-hosted. When Deenie gets diagnosed with scoliosis and Helen has a crush on the young man working at her father's garage, she goes hysterical and wails that all she wanted was the best for her daughters.