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Summary: Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue
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In the story, Amber Brown is feeling blue, written by Paula Danziger is about a girl named Amber whose parents are divorced and for Thanksgiving, her Mom wants to take her to Walla Walla, Washington but her Dad wants to take her to New York. She doesn't want to choose - but her parents are leaving it up to her. To make things worse, Amber Brown isn't the only one in school with a colorful name anymore. Kelly Green is the new girl in her class...Amber ends up showing Kelly around the school and they become best friends.My favorite part in the book is when Kelly sees another student throwing up so she ended up throwing up too. I chose this book because it is about a girl my age and I wanted to learn about her life and how it compares to mine.
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Summary: My book review
Review: I am a children's writer living in Leicestershire, UK, and having read this and four previous Amber Brown books, I think that these books have everything for children; humour, irony, warmth,and true-life situations. Paula Danziger gives me lots of ideas.
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Summary: This Book Was Good
Review: Its a book about a girl named Amber Brown.she thinks people laugh at her because her last name is a color.Well it was halloween night and she make her own costume its was a color the color was brown.The next day that she went to school there was a new student there her name was Kelly Green.Amber had to show her around school.Amber had to go to the nurse because she needed a toothbrush and Kelly was watching her [be sick] and then she started to [be sick].And than her mom wanted Amber to go with her to Walla with her but her dad wanted her to go to New York.
And if you want to know what happend read the book!!!!!!!!!I think i acn relate to Amber Brown cause she is like me?...
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Summary: Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue
Review: Jamie Keseloff
March 27, 2003
Period 2 Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue
In the story, Amber Brown is feeling blue, written by Paula Danziger is about a girl named Amber whose parents are divorced and for Thanksgiving, her Mom wants to take her to Walla Walla, Washington but her Dad wants to take her to New York. She doesn't want to choose - but her parents are leaving it up to her. To make things worse, Amber Brown isn't the only one in school with a colorful name anymore. Kelly Green is the new girl in her class. Amber ended up going with her Mom but promised her Dad that she would go with him during Christmas break. Amber ends up showing Kelly around the school and they become best friends. My favorite part in the book is when Kelly sees another student throwing up so she ended up throwing up too. I chose this book because it is about a girl my age and I wanted to learn about her life and how it compares to mine.
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Summary: Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue
Review: Jamie Keseloff
March 27, 2003
Period 2 Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue
In the story, Amber Brown is feeling blue, written by Paula Danziger is about a girl named Amber whose parents are divorced and for Thanksgiving, her Mom wants to take her to Walla Walla, Washington but her Dad wants to take her to New York. She doesn't want to choose - but her parents are leaving it up to her. To make things worse, Amber Brown isn't the only one in school with a colorful name anymore. Kelly Green is the new girl in her class. Amber ended up going with her Mom but promised her Dad that she would go with him during Christmas break. Amber ends up showing Kelly around the school and they become best friends. My favorite part in the book is when Kelly sees another student throwing up so she ended up throwing up too. I chose this book because it is about a girl my age and I wanted to learn about her life and how it compares to mine.
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Summary: This Book Was Good
Review: While Paula Danziger should be praised for writing about real-life situations and the difficult decisions children sometimes face, it would be better if she would focus her writing on her reader audience, children.
Ms. Danziger seems unable to resist puns and double entendres that are way above even the oldest readers in her audience. For example, in the school barfing scene, the new girl in school, Kelly Green is given the nickname KGB or Kelly Greenbarf. There is no way contemporary 9 year-olds would give this nickname since the KGB didn't even exist when they were born and it is doubtful they would be studying that part of history in the 4th grade. Further, Ms. Danziger goes out of her way to twist the text to fit in her next superfluous pun when Amber feels guilty about various things the precocious 9 year old suggests a new nail polish color "Amber Brown Gilt". This would seem clever to adult children's book reviewers (her real audience?) but show me a 9-12 year old who knows what "gilt" is.
Also, like many children's book authors, Ms. Danziger has her adult characters behaving like children and vice versa. Amber's mother promises that she will be OK with whatever Amber decides to do on Thanksgiving, but when Amber makes her decision Mom breaks her promise by weeping like a child.
In the last chapter, Ms. Danziger acknowledges this when the main character, Amber Brown says, "I just hate it when they (adults) make jokes I don't understand." Ms. Danziger should realize that her readers, kids not reviewers, don't like it much either. Stop writing for reviewers, write for children.
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