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 The amazing thing about Judy Blume isn't that her books are still selling 50 years after they burst onto the children's scene, but that they're no less potent than then. With candid depictions of topics like menstruation, bullying, and teenage sex that's pleasurable rather than the fulcrum of a morality tale, Blume's books still dominate summer camp cabins and school libraries and dare to not ban them. A stunning 1973 novel about a girl whose scoliosis interferes with her mother's dreams of her daughter's modeling career, Deenie is a current favorite among the 12-and-under residents of this critic's home. The very title, which also addresses masturbation with surprising frankness, aroused members of the far right. In a terrific scene from Judy Blume's Forever, Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok documentary about the iconic writer, Blume is seen on the TV show Crossfire training with conservative commentator Pat Buchanan in the early 1980s. two sons does ...