Forever ... by Judy Blume

Forever... is a 1975 novel by Judy Blume dealing with teenage sexuality. Because of the novel's content it has been the frequent target of censorship and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 at number seven.

Awards:
Margaret A. Edwards Awards
Best Book of the Year Award (runner up 1975)

Well I think this is another book that I'll have to give to my niece and nephews when they become teenagers.

I don't know why I read this again.
But I really can't believe Katherine let go of Michael, I mean he was everything a girl can ask for. But I guess, sometimes, perfect is still not enough.

i wasn't that crazy about this book. it felt like it was almost entirely dialogue and i couldn't tell that the characters cared about each other aside from them saying “i love you”. it felt like there wasn't a lot of emotion in the writing and it was incredibly fast-paced. also the synopsis on the back and what was made out to be the main conflict didn't happen until the last 40 pages of the book. wasn't crazy about it but it wasn't awful!

This book came out in 1975, yet it's amazingly honest, comfortable, and sex-positive. Judy Blume presents sex not as a foreign thing or a sinful thing, but as a thing real teenagers do and talk about. It is neither preachy nor lenient, neither lewd nor prudish. In this story, sex just is what it is. She covers birth control, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, abortion, and the emotional side to a physical relationship. Blume also does not pretend that a girl's first time is the way it is in other books (unbearably painful or unimaginably blissful, take your pick), nor is her first sexual partner the only one she will ever have in her life. Honest is the best way to describe this book. The main character, Katherine, becomes sexually active in a natural way, and makes real, natural decisions. I didn't read anything that was unrealistic or cliche. This was my first time reading it, and I definitely think this should be something girls read before making decisions about their bodies and their relationships.