![]() Not every reader shares my enthusiasm, however: it has continued to be challenged and banned well into the twenty-first century.įorever…, of course, is far from the only case. For me, a gangly and curly-haired thirteen-year-old, it was an incitement to consider the pleasure of skin-on-skin contact and the power of banned books. Published in 1975, the novel charts a high school girl’s coming of age-or, more accurately, her sexual awakening-and was, according to the American Library Association, among the books most frequently targeted to be banned in the 1990s. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can clearly recall the day my local librarian handed me Judy Blume’s Forever…, a twinkle in her eye. ![]()
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