One of the first authors of teenage literature, touching on taboo topics in her novels: from masturbation and menstruation to teenage sex, contraception. Some approve of her for addressing topics that excite her audience, others criticize for this and try to ban her books. Bloom herself says this: “I want to be honest. And I feel that (when I was a child) no adult was honest with me. Before, we didn't know what we should have known."