[stands2reason]

She wrote exactly two books with sexuality in them. And many ,many without. The author is being disengenuous by only mentioning those two titles.

[escapefromboston]

That explains why I missed them. I prefer Bloom to L'Engle. Though I have only read "a wrinkle in time" I found it a bit bland.

The best children's book ever written: The Phantom Tollbooth.

[Xenalyte]

You're forgetting Wifey. Made Deenie and Forever look almost acceptable.

[ReignOfError]

The controversy over Blume's books was always out of proportion to the content. Her books were mostly read by girls, but I picked up a copy of Deenie because there was a local move to ban it from libraries.

The controversial scene involved a young girl touching herself in the bathtub. It ran, as I recall, half a page, maybe a whole page. Couched in vague enough language that I waited the rest of the book for the scandalous stuff. That was it.