Talk:Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Punctuation

The correct title to the novel is Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret with no comma between "there" and "God". Blume knows this is incorrect, but insisted to her publisher that there be no separation between God and Margaret.

Plot summary is too heavily slanted towards the belief conflict

The plot summary devotes most of its time to Margaret's religious conflict and 2 lines to Margaret's puberty. The puberty was a much bigger part of the actual book and probably should get as much space as the religious business. TheBlinkster (talk) 00:58, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Popular Media Reference

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Is referenced in the touching love story of the movie entitled Deadpool which was released on 02/12/16. It occurs during an emotional scene where the protagonist Deadpool unintentionally squirts blood into the face of his frenemy Colossus while cutting off his own arm to escape handcuffs. Soon after Deadpool shouts "That's the money shot!" before jumping off of a bridge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ezzadan (talk • contribs) 22:12, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Future Direction

The article has quite a bit of information lacking on the awards section. While it may not be incredibly relevant I feel it is important to accurately represent this section. Bms141 (talk) 20:12, 28 January 2019 (UTC)Bms141

I have listed everything that I found. It does not appear that it ever won a significant award. Do you know of something that is missing? Rublamb (talk) 22:38, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Is this a young adult book?

I recently updated the text to say this was a middle-grade book. Another editor restored the young adult label. I don't want to get in an edit war, so I thought I should explain my position. As a librarian, I am classifying this as libraries do. The general guideline is that kids don't read books that are about children who are younger than they are. In this case, the protagonist and her friends are pre-teens and are in the 6th grade. As a result, this book is placed in the children's collection of a public library, not the young adult collection. Middle-grade reader is the term used for 4th through 6the graders. The young adult readers label covers 7th through 12th grades. While some early teens (7th graders) might read this book, it would not be a typical selection for a high school senior. The most likely readers would be 5th and 6th graders. Thus, it is correctly described as a book for middle-grade readers. This is why this book was challenged--people thought the content was too adult for children

Also, I updated the genre in the infobox to contemporary realistic and coming of age, rather than young adult. YA is not a genre, but an audience. Books for children and young adults are mysteries, fantasy, sci-fi, etc., just like adult books. Rublamb (talk) 22:50, 16 September 2022 (UTC)