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Title details for Iggie's House by Judy Blume - Available

Iggie's House

by Judy Blume
Emily Janice Card
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"The last book that I really loved (which makes it great to me) was probably Iggie’s House... When I think about the fact that it was published in 1970 and addresses white flight, I’m enamored by Blume’s courage." –Jason Reynolds, bestselling author of Long Way Down, in The New York Times Book Review
 
A classic, coming of age novel from award-winning author Judy Blume about the bonds that form between children when a black family moves into an all white neighborhood.
 
Iggie’s House just wasn’t the same. Iggie was gone, moved to Tokyo. And there was Winnie, cracking her gum on Grove Street, where she’d always lived, with no more best friend and two weeks left of summer.
 
Then the Garber family moved into Iggie’s house—two boys, Glenn and Herbie, and Tina, their little sister. The Garbers were black and Grove Street was white and always had been. Winnie, a welcoming committee of one, set out to make a good impression and be a good neighbor. 
 
But Glenn and Herbie and Tina didn’t want a “good neighbor.” They wanted a friend. And when the other white families on the block got word of it, that's when the trouble started.

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  • Release date

    January 11, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307747679
      • File size: 79650 KB
      • Duration: 02:45:56

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 3.5
    • Lexile® Measure: 520
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 1-3

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This 1970 novel depicts historical attitudes about race relations that may surprise young listeners today. Eleven-year-old Winnie loses her best friend when Iggie moves to Tokyo. Winnie remembers playing in the tree house and the fun of being welcomed into Iggie's cosmopolitan family. As Winnie eagerly waits for a new family to move in, she has no idea she's about to lose her innocence. The new family--the Garbers--is black, an anomaly in her community. Emily Janice Card evokes a time of life, an era, and Winnie's transformation from naiveté to social awareness to activism. Blume depicts common attitudes of the period through the characters Winnie encounters--the righteousness and racism of an adult bully, her mother's subtle prejudice, and the sarcasm of young Herbie Garber, who challenges Winnie's narrow life. Card portrays them all credibly. S.W. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 1, 2002
      Judy Blume's body of work returns to her original editor, Richard Jackson, with the rerelease of four classics in hardcover. An African-American family moves to all-white Grove Street in Iggie's House, to be released in April. The author's breakthrough title, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, about 11-year old Margaret Simon's struggles with puberty and religion, is now available in hardcover as well as in a Spanish-language edition, Estas ahi Dios? Soy yo, Margaret. Two additional titles came out last season: Blubber takes on preteen teasing; and It's Not the End of the World explores the effects of divorce.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:3.5
  • Lexile® Measure:520
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:1-3

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