Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret. By Judy Blume (1970) 25 chapters 149 pages Chapter 1 Are you there God…? Margaret is worried and anxious about leaving her family’s New York City apartment where she’s lived her whole life and moving to (fictional) Farbrook, New Jersey. As Margaret tells us in first person POV- she is an only child. Her father works in Manhattan. The new house is on Morningbird Lane is seven years old and it’s nice. Margaret suspects this uprooting from her private school and city life was to get her away from 60 year-old Sylvia Simon, her paternal Jewish grandmother who is helping out financially with Margaret’s education, knitting her sweaters and paying for summer camp (all unnecessary, Margaret informs us, as her parents