This book by Judy Blume deals with the problems of growing-up. It's about a young girl called Margaret, who needs someone to speak to and so she talks to God. Margaret moves with her family to Farbrook, New Jersey. Margaret is afraid that she won't find friends but soon she does. With her new friends Nancy, Janie and Gretchen she constitutes The Secret Club. When they meet the main topics are boys, bras, the period and breasts. They promise each other to say if someone gets the period. First Gretchen gets it. Meanwhile Margaret is very desperate because she thinks she will be the last who gets it and also she doesn't know what kind of religion she is. She asks God to help her and that her breasts will grow. Then Nancy gets her period but by chance Margaret finds out that this ain't true. Margaret feels very relieved. One day she gets a letter from her grandparents in which they say that they want to meet her. Margaret doesn't know them, because they had an very bad quarrel with her parents about Margaret's religion. When they come they want to persuade Margaret that she is Christian. Margaret is fed up with religion so she doesn't pray to God anymore. Finally she gets her period before Nancy and Janie and then she prays to God again. This book is the second one I've read from Judy Blume. It's a simple but honest story - but still I found it a little bit boring. I also didn't like that the girls in the book where mainly just talking about bras, boys, and so on. I think the book is more for girls than for boys because it deals with the problems growing-up girls have (like period and that stuff). It's a good book, easy to read and so I can recommend it to everybody who's about 12 years old and interested in reading a typical girl-book.