Then Again, Maybe I Won't

Everyone says that this is meant to be a male version of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. This book is definitely just as good, but it's a much darker, more melancholy story. Blume focuses less on puberty issues and more on the struggle to adjust to family members changing in disappointing ways. Tony copes with the "selling out" of his family when his father becomes rich and moves them to a wealthy suburb, the disturbing misbehaviors of his new poor-little-rich-boy next door neighbor friend, and his obsession with his friend's hot older sister. The way the grandmother was treated was so sad and I really wanted someone to slap some sense into his mother. I really wish there had been a happier resolution to this book, but it's still pretty good!

Read in middle school when J.B. was all the rage. Probably better for a boy to read than a girl.

Read this as a pre-teen. Taught me a lot about boys and the way they think.

Loved it. Haven't read it in years.

One boy's struggle with wet dreams....

Read this when I was a kid and thoroughly enjoyed it.

The cover of this edition is unnecessarily creepy.

good 20 odd years ago

The girls I went to school with all like it so after I got done reading Tom Sawyer for the 4th time, I decided to read it.

Yep...Mom didnt like to talk about "things" but I loved to read!!!!