I think mine might have been the one on the right...

Posted by: Helen | July 10, 2008 2:36 PM

I didn't own a copy, but the one I checked out of the library was the one on the left. You had to have a note from your parents to check it out of the school library, but then I discovered that you could just check it out of the public library, no questions asked.

I think that cover was related to a TV movie based on the book that starred, if I recall correctly, Stephanie Zimbalist, who went on to star in Remington Steele.

Posted by: Shanna Swendson | July 10, 2008 4:25 PM

Shanna, it was "under the counter" in our public library, i.e. they didn't shelve it, you had to ask for it!

The cover on the right is very familiar to me, Helen, but I don't think I read that particular book. I must have just read a lot of books in that series. I think the Paul Zindel books looked like this.

Posted by: Keris | July 10, 2008 4:35 PM

I hadn't even heard of Judy Blume until I started reading Trashionista. Is that bad?

Posted by: Stella | July 10, 2008 5:01 PM

I had (I think I might still have it somewhere!) the one on the right. I loved that book! I bought it without knowing anything about it because I'd loved all of her other stuff, and got SUCH a surprise when I read it...

Posted by: Helen | July 10, 2008 7:48 PM

The one on the right is the copy I borrowed from our school library. However, the copy I borrowed had 'YEAR EIGHT ONLY' in permanent marker along the three page ends - the younger three years at our middle school weren't allowed it.

Posted by: Jenni | July 10, 2008 8:37 PM

I read the copy on the left. And I hid it from my mom. :)

Posted by: Julie | July 11, 2008 3:27 AM

I am shocked at this 'under the counter' business! Very Lady Chatterley. I read the one on the left from the library I think. Like Helen, I had a bit of a surprise too!
Good old Judy Blume...girls everywhere have a lot to thank her for!

Posted by: Lucy Diamond | July 11, 2008 9:02 AM

It's not bad, Stella, but I am amazed. I don't know anyone who didn't read (or at least hear about) Forever at school!

Posted by: Keris | July 11, 2008 11:14 AM

The cover on the left is the one we still have in our public library. I couldn't believe I missed out on reading this book - but then saw that it was published in 1975 and, unfortunately, that's the year I started high school so I probably thought I had outgrown Judy Blume and just ignored it. Maybe I'll check it out now and see what I missed.

Posted by: Tami | July 11, 2008 3:32 PM

My cover was old-school - probably the first cover issued. It had a gold locket on it...and the words were in this dark brown (black?) 70's looking scroll.

What a great book. And Deenie, and Are You There God, and all the other wonderful books that I enjoyed in my pre-teen years!

Posted by: Kelly P. | July 11, 2008 3:39 PM

I never owned a copy of this as it was my least favourite Blume book but none of those covers look familiar. That new one looks like it's copying all the chick-lit "leg" covers though!

Posted by: Paula | July 12, 2008 1:59 PM

This is the cover i had >> http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0671695304.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg <<
I got it from my moms friends daughter who is a couple years older the me, My friends said i turned red alot when i was reading it in class (i read it a year ago when i was in grade 8)

Posted by: stevie | October 19, 2008 12:01 AM

This is the cover i had >> http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0671695304.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg <<
I got it from my moms friends daughter who is a couple years older the me, My friends said i turned red alot when i was reading it in class (i read it a year ago when i was in grade 8)

Posted by: stevie | October 19, 2008 12:02 AM