Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.: Difference between revisions

* [[No Periods, Period]]: The puberty exception. This is a major plot point of the book. Margaret and her friends are greatly looking forward to starting their periods and are frustrated that they haven't, to the point where {{spoiler|Nancy lies about getting hers}}. Margaret gets extremely upset as her two friends get theirs before she does. {{spoiler|She ends up being the next to last one to get hers}}. Also, {{spoiler|Nancy gets extremely upset when she does get hers for real}}.

** Educating girls about menstruation seems to have been an important part of the book: the newer editions have even been updated so that, instead of describing belts and such, Margaret now uses modern sanitary napkins.

* [[The Sixties]]: The novel takes place in this time period, although it was written right at the start of [[The Seventies]].

* [[Spin the Bottle]]: The girls play this game with their classmates at a birthday party, but come to the conclusion that it's lame and decide to play [[Ten Minutes in the Closet|"two minutes in the closet"]] instead.