Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

By Judy Blume

Subjects: bigotry, Moving, household, fiction, nephritis, Family life, fiction, Household Moving, Florida, fiction, Large type books, snowbirds, Imagination, Jews, fiction, Family, antisemitism, head lice, racial segregation, Girls, fiction, polio, Fiction, Children's fiction, Jews, united states, fiction, party lines, Juvenile fiction, History, Jews, sibling rivalry, historical fiction, Jewish families, racism, Family life, Imagination, fiction

Description: Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself is a 1977 young adult novel by Judy Blume. The story is set in 1947 and follows the imaginative 10-year-old Sally, who likes to make up stories in her head, her family moves from New Jersey to Miami Beach. While not as controversial as some of her other novels, Blume does manage to address the following themes of late 1940s life in America: racism, anti-Semitism and sibling rivalry. ---------- Also contained in: [Novels (Iggie's House / It's Not the End of the World / Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself) ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27714093W)