It would have been easy for Tiger Eyes to become a soapy mess less sensitive direction could have landed the ya movie, with its heightened emotions, in glorified after school special land. Lawrence Blume and Willa on location in New Mexico Wishing I could articulate my thoughts as eloquently as Peter Travis did in Rolling Stone alas ~ Here Davey is befriended by a young man who helps her find the strength to carry on and conquer her fears. After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. They have three grown children and one grandchild.Here's the skinny on the story from if you haven't read the book. Judy and her husband George Cooper live on islands up and down the east coast. She has co-written and produced a film adaptation of her book Tiger Eyes, and is currently writing a new novel. Judy has completed a series of four chapter books - The Pain & the Great One - illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson. She is the editor of Places I Never Meant To Be, Original Stories by Censored Writers. Since then, she has worked tirelessly with the National Coalition Against Censorship to protect the freedom to read.

Finding herself at the center of an organized book banning campaign in the 1980's she began to reach out to other writers, as well as teachers and librarians, who were under fire. Judy is a longtime advocate of intellectual freedom. She serves on the boards of the Author's Guild the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators the Key West Literary Seminar and the National Coalition Against Censorship.

She is the founder and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable and educational foundation. Other recognitions include the Library of Congress Living Legends Award and the 2004 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year the American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. She receives thousands of letters a year from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concerns with her. More than 80 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into thirty-one languages. She has also written three novels for adults, Summer Sisters Smart Women and Wifey, all of them New York Times bestsellers. Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Blubber Just as Long as We're Together and the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper.

Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head.

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