Deenie

Hardcover, 192 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 1973 by Bradbury Press.

ISBN:
978-0-02-711020-3
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OCLC Number:
42696629

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3 stars (1 review)

There she was, Deenie Fenner, almost 13, stuck in a doctor's closet trying to get into two body stockings, and scared out of her wits. All those awful Saturday trips to modelling agencies weren't anything like this...

Deenie's mother wanted her to be a model, with her face on magazine covers--maybe even in the movies. Deenie wanted to spend her Saturdays with her friends Janet and Midge, tracking Harvey Grabowsky, the captain of the football team, around Woolworth's. She wanted to be a cheerleader, too, or be going to the seventh-grade mixer to hear Buddy Brader play his drums.

But instead she had these body stockings to get on and a roomful of strangers to face. Suddenly Deenie had to cope with a kind of specialness that was frightening--and might be hers forever. --front flap

22 editions

reviewed Deenie by Judy Blume (Laurel-Leaf Library)

Review of 'Deenie' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

another for the GD summer challenge, this is a re-read for me.
it was pretty much as i remembered except this time i could see the foreshadow of the scoliosis from the first 2 pages, and the mother character really grated on me from the start. and i forgot how nice the sister reacted. someone over at Girl Detective noticed that Blume's books always have a nasty mother, but there's always a good relationship between the fathers and the protagonists so i really noticed that as well. i wonder how Judy Blume's mother took that - every mom a mild sort of witch (but maybe i'm reading too much into that - teenage girls always have a rocky relationship with their moms and that's one of the reasons why i loved Blume books - she got me)

Subjects

  • Body & health
  • Fiction dealing with social issues
  • Fiction dealing with specific issues
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
  • Children: Grades 4-6
  • Readers - Beginner
  • Juvenile Fiction / General
  • Health & Daily Living - General
  • Social Issues - Adolescence
  • Fiction
  • Scoliosis