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Violence
None
No violence; the postwar setting is backdrop for a child's imagination
Language
None
Clean language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of imagination, family, and growing up in the shadow of history
What this book is about
Sally Freedman's family moves from New Jersey to Miami Beach after her brother's illness, and Sally fills her new life with elaborate fantasies — including a conviction that an elderly neighbor is Adolf Hitler in disguise. Judy Blume's semi-autobiographical novel captures childhood imagination and the particular anxiety of the postwar Jewish American experience with characteristic honesty and warmth.
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