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Language English Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN 1-55736-046-4 Publisher Grolier OCLC 16900279 | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date 1987 Pages 296 pp Originally published 1987 Genre Young adult fiction Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by Here's to You, Rachel Robinson Similar Judy Blume books, Young adult fiction books, Friendship books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Just as Long as We're Together is a young adult novel written by Judy Blume and published in 1987. It is a companion book to Here's to You, Rachel Robinson.
The novel is narrated by Stephanie Hirsch, who has several changes in her life happening at the same time. She is turning thirteen, her family has just moved, she is starting middle school, her parents are separating, she gains ten pounds over the holidays, she starts menstruating and becoming interested in boys, and her lifelong friendship with the overachieving Rachel Robinson (the later protagonist of Here's to You, Rachel Robinson) is threatened when new girl Alison Monceau moves to town. Stephanie really likes Alison and feels that Rachel is threatened when the twosome becomes a threesome. Will this friendship be saved? Will Stephanie's parents ever get back together?