Alexie, Sherman
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Allende, Isabel
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Anaya, Rudolfo A.
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Anderson, Laurie Halse
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Andrews, V.C.
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Angelou, Maya
o I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Anonymous
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Aristophanes
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o Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence?
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Koontz, Dean
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Knowles, John
o A Separate Peace

Review of Iggie's House by Judy Blume

Iggie's House, says Judy Blume in a foreword note, was the first long book she wrote, while taking a writing course at NYU. Published in 1970, the book tells the story of a young girl, Winnie Barringer, in the summer before her sixth grade year. Winnie's lifelong best friend, Iggie, and her family have moved away from their house on Grove Street to Tokyo. Winnie is forlorn until the new neighbors, the Garbers, move in.

At that point, things on Grove Street heat up, because the Garbers are the first African-American ("colored," Winnie's parents and the other neighbors say; "black" counter the Garber children) family to move to the upper middle class community. Dorothy Landon, whom Winnie calls "Germs, Inc.", leads the attack in the neighborhood, circulating a petition to try and force the Garbers out, posting signs in their yard, and eventually calling in a real estate agent to try to coerce her neighbors into moving. Through all of this, Winnie is torn between wanting to defend her new friends and trying to figure out where her parents stand in all of it.

By the end of the book, the Landons are moving away, but the Barringers and the Garbers, at least, are staying put. Little else has been resolved. Given the complexity of the issue the story addresses, that is as it should be.

I found it interesting, as I read this over a lunch hour, to consider that I had never heard of the book when I was in the age group it was written for. Indeed, the only Judy Blume book I was familiar with as a child in elementary school in the 1970s was Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, and my parents had to sign a permission slip for me to read it as part of my sixth grade girl's "hygiene" class.

All of the social issues Winnie faced in the novel were very real when I was her age. Those same issues may be expressed in different behaviors, but they are still present. And while some of the book's language may be a little dated, its message about friendship, race and respect is still as valid today as it was forty years ago.