Fudge-a-Mania is a 1990

1990 in literature

The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed...

 children's

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

 novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by Judy Blume

Judy Blume

Judy Blume is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages...

 and the third in the "Fudge" series (fourth if Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great is a children's novel published in 1972 and written by Judy Blume.-Plot summary:Sheila Tubman's family is planning a vacation, where they leave New York City for the summer to live in suburban Tarrytown...

is counted as part of the series).
The Hatcher and Tubman families decide to spend their summer vacation together in Maine

Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...

, not next door to each other, but in the same house, much to the disgust of Peter Hatcher and his arch-rival Sheila Tubman. They are related at the end of the story because their grandparents, Muriel and Buzzy, get married.