Can Karen keep her parents from getting a divorce? This classic novel from Judy Blume has a fresh new look.
Karen couldn't tell Mrs. Singer why she had to take her Viking diorama out of the sixth-grade showcase. She felt like yelling, "To keep my parents from getting divorced!" But she couldn't say it, and the whole class was looking at her anyway.
Karen's world was ending. Her father had moved out of the house weeks before; now he was going to Las Vegas to get divorced, and her mother was pleased! She had only a few days to get the two of them together in the same room. Maybe, if she could, they would just forget about the divorce. Then the Newman family could be its old self again-maybe. But Karen knew something she didn't know last winter: that sometimes people who shouldn't be apart are impossible together.
미국 뉴저지에서 태어났고 뉴욕 대학교를 졸업했다. 어린이에서부터 성인을 대상으로 한 것까지 다양한 스물 한 권에 이르는 그의 작품은 무려 20여 개국에서 출간되어 전 세계적으로 7천만 부 넘게 팔려 나갔다. 지금까지 90여 개가 넘는 각종 상을 받았으며, 어린이와 청소년 문제에 깊은 관심을 갖고 있어 "The Kids Fund"라는 어린이를 위한 장학 재단을 직접 설립하는 등의 왕성한 활동을 하고 있다. 논픽션 작가인 남편과 함께 뉴욕의 이스트 코스트에서 살고 있다.
국내에 소개된 책으로는『13살 토니의 비밀』『안녕하세요 하느님, 저 마거릿이에요』『별볼일 없는 4학년』『엄마 다시는 그런 짓 안할 거야』『엄마처럼 난 결혼하지 않을래』등이 있다.