Deenie
by Judy Blume
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Deenie wasn't entirely against being a model, but her mother's insistence and all the nagging about her posture were a bore. Deenie liked being pretty--ugly things like hunchbacks and bad cases of eczema repelled her--and she liked being attractive to boys, especially Buddy Brader. She wanted to be a cheerleader, too, but it was the posture thing again! Was she going to have to walk around with books on her head forever? Then her posture problem really got out of hand. After all the doctors and all the examinations, it had a new name, adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, and it meant that Deenie would now have to wear a brace from her neck down to her hips for four years--or longer.
--back cover
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eczema, gas stations, termination, body braces, Scoliosis, Scoliosis in fiction, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Scoliosis in children, Large type books, Children's fiction, Diseases, fiction, Children, diseases, fiction, Girls, fiction, Protected DAISY, Accessible book, People with disabilities, fictionShowing 7 featured editions. View all 32 editions?
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"My mother named me Deenie because right before I was born she saw a movie about a beautiful girl named Wilmadeene, who everybody called Deenie for short."
Work Description
Deenie is a 1973 young adult novel written by Judy Blume.
This book, like many others written by Blume, has been banned in schools for themes deemed inappropriate for adolescents; in this case, talk about masturbation and sexuality. Deenie is on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 at forty-sixth.
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