Wayside School Is Falling Down and Encyclopedia Brown. Up through elementary and into middle school, it was Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Harriet the Spy, and the vast canon of Judy Blume: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Fudge, Blubber, Deenie, and Are You There, God?
It’s Me, Margaret.I also longed for straight hair and proportions like Cindy Crawford. (Enter chemical relaxers and body dysmorphia issues.
At 12.) Up until that point, required reading was either minimal or animal—shout-out to Mrs. Frisby and her NIMH-ish rats—but then eighth grade hit.And I started to disappear.It seems that people don’t realize how much the stuff we read and watch shapes the way we see the world and the people in it, ourselves included.
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