![]() ![]() A visit to the doctor reveals she is having panic attacks. When she attempts to go back to school for her sophomore year, she faints. She suffers from anxiety and possibly PTSD. Davey spends days lying in her bed and refusing to eat. ![]() Her father, Adam, died suddenly and violently, shot to death during a robbery of the family’s 7-11 store near their home in Atlantic City. The novel opens as fifteen-year-old Davey Wexler attends her father’s funeral, along with her mother, Gwen, and her little brother, Jason. Blume’s books are some of the most challenged, but also the most popular, for children and young adults in America. Blume is a celebrated author of dozens of children’s and young adult novels, known for her willingness to address topics that might be considered taboo, such as a girl getting her first menstrual period in Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret divorce in Just as Long as We’re Together masturbation in Deenie and more. Judy Blume’s young adult novel Tiger Eyes (1981) is about a young girl’s experience of coping with grief, loss, and change after the death of her father. ![]()
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