This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 1970, copyright renewed 1998 by Judy Blume

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this workas follows:

Blume, Judy.

Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret / Judy Blume.

p. cm.

Summary: Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, atwelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

[1. Teenage girls—Fiction. 2. Religions—Fiction. 3. Conduct of life—Fiction.]

I. Title.

PZ7.B6265 Ar 1990

[Fic]—dc22

90044484

Trade paperback ISBN 9780385739863

Ebook ISBN 9780307817747

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