Iggies House, Judy Blume
Iggies House, Judy Blume
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Iggie's House

Author: Judy Blume

Narrator: Emily Janice Card

Unabridged: 2 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/11/2011

Synopsis

"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.

About The Author

Judy Blume’s books have won hundreds of awards. She is the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives in Key West and New York City. You can visit her at www.judyblume.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ashley on November 19, 2015

The second book in my project to read or re-read all the Judy Blume. I never read this one as a kid. It's a little dated, and the capital-M Message definitely overrides the story, but I feel like this would be a really good way into talking with your kid about racism. Because it's narrated by a litt......more

Goodreads review by Jane on September 16, 2012

I was always a big fan of Judy Blume when I was younger, and I recently decided to reread some of her books. Iggie's House wasn't one that I read as a child, so I was pleased to get it from the library and settle down with it. Iggie's House tells the story of Winnie, a girl whose best friend moves aw......more

Goodreads review by Aimee on April 29, 2015

I first read this when I was eight or nine and thought Judy Blume was the best thing since sliced bread. I remember liking it a whole lot, but now I'm at a loss to explain just why I liked it. Surely not SOLELY because it was Judy Blume? There must have been something that grabbed me and kept me rea......more

Goodreads review by Kris on November 17, 2020

Lots of mixed feelings on this one. It somehow manages to be both ridiculously dated and embarrassingly still relevant. I was a typical Judy Blume reader as a kid - I'm guessing her audience was made up of a whole bunch of middle-class white girls who looked an awful lot like me. I get why she wrote......more

Goodreads review by Jason on June 20, 2019

Goodreads 2019 Summer Reading Challenge 11. Past love: Reread a book you loved when you were younger I have the distinct memory of this being my least favorite of all of Judy Blume's books, back when I was a kid in the 1970s, and a re-read this week at the age of 50 pretty conclusively proves why. To......more

Quotes

"The purpose is worthy, and the most perceptive aspect of the book is the interpretation of the reaction of the black family."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

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