Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own. Reprint.
Amber Brown, Justin's best friend since preschool. Now in third grade, everything is going to change. It is not uncommon in Mr. Cohen's class to go on a "trip" to a faraway place. They have make-believe passports, chairs lined up as the airplane, a pilot and co-pilot, and of course peanuts. After...
Danciger, Paula. Forever Amber Brown. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1997.Genre - Fiction - Family IssuestThis book is about Amber Brown and her time spent during her fourth grade year. Her parents are divorced which leaves Amber feeling confused about Max, her mom's boyfriend. Amber is feeling confu...
Jaime WaldronDue 1/13/12D blockThere’s a bat in bunk five by Paula Danziger is a summer romance. Marcy a high spirted creative writer. A c.i.t.(counselor in training) at a camp run by Ms. Finney and old teacher. Creative arts camp music,drama,and writing. There are many other c.i.t. there and cou...
What I like about my book was that Amber brown was tired of her parents arging all the time that they did not have time for her.So next day when she got up to go to school she was wondering was she getting taller or shorter because her pants where not fitting. So when she went to school it was sk...
This is not a great classic, and I doubt many people remember it from the '80s despite the fact that it's written by Paula Danziger. But I loved this book when it first came out, and so when I found it again at the Friends of the Library sale, it was a no-brainer!It is 2057 and Aurora, a popular,...
(Contains three books The Cat Ate my Gymsuit, There's a Bat in Bunk Five and Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice. The first two books feature Marcy, a teenager who gains confidence at school and helps out at the summer camp. The final story features Lauren's adventures at school)
4 STARS"Rosie and Phoebe have been best friends since they met on the Divorce Express, shuttling between their parents on weekends. So when Rosie's mom falls in love with Phoebe's dad, and they all move in together, it seems perfect. But Rosie soon learns that having Phoebe as a sister and having...
Finally, everything is beginning to work out for Amber Brown. Her mom's boyfriend, Max, has invited Amber and her mom to Walla Walla, Washington, for Thanksgiving, and Amber's dad is coming home from Paris to live nearby. Amber finally feels like she has all of her family around her. Life couldn'...
I read the Amber Brown books obsessively when I was younger. I found this one lurking on my bookshelf and thought I'd re-visit it. There isn't much to say about this one besides the fact that I can see why I loved this. Amber Brown is a hilarious little girl. Paula Danziger really nails the menta...
From Refracted Light's Middle Grade Monday feature:What was the book about (without giving away what happens)?The book is about a girl who meets her mom’s boyfriend. (The girl’s parents are divorced.) And she has to do a brownie project for school for extra credit.Did you enjoy this story? Why?I ...
I have really liked how this book was set up to catch the readers attention .This book is really interesting because sense page one you become so interested in the characters story.Also this book allowed me to see what many teenagers go threw when they experience a divorce.Before I had read this ...
I hate school. I hate being fat. I hate the principal because he wanted to fire Ms. Finney, my English teacher. My name is Marcy Lewis. I’m thirteen years old and in the ninth grade at Dwight D. Eisenhower Junior High. All my life I’ve thought that I looked like a baby blimp with wire-frame glass...