Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
About this book
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself is a 1977 young adult novel by Judy Blume. The story is set in 1947 and follows the imaginative 10-year-old Sally, who likes to make up stories in her head, her family moves from New Jersey to Miami Beach. While not as controversial as some of her other novels, Blume does manage to address the following themes of late 1940s life in America: racism, anti-Semitism and sibling rivalry.
Also contained in: Novels (Iggie's House / It's Not the End of the World / Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself)
Subjects
- antisemitism
- bigotry
- children's fiction
- family
- family life
- family life, fiction
- fiction
- florida, fiction
- girls, fiction
- head lice
- historical fiction
- history
- household moving
- imagination
- imagination, fiction
- jewish families
- jews
- jews, fiction
- jews, united states, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- moving, household, fiction
- nephritis
- party lines
- polio
- racial segregation
- racism
- sibling rivalry
- snowbirds