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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

1. I, Amber Brown

Title: I, Amber Brown
Author: Paula Danziger
Illustrator: Tony Ross
Genre: Juvenile
Sub-Genre: Fiction
Theme: Sub-parenting, divorce, feelings of divorce
Primary Characters: Amber Brown
Secondary Characters: Father, Mother, and Max
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Publisher and Date of Publication: Scholastic Inc.; 1999
Summary:
This book is about a girl named Amber Brown. She finds her holidays disrupted when her father comes back into town. She struggles to find herself and what part belongs to her dad and what part belongs to her mom. She decides to get her ears pierced, but her mom says no. However- her dad doesn’t know that.. Find out what happens to Amber Brown, in I, Amber Brown. This book has such great humor filled throughout. This is a perfect recreational book for your classroom, and some students will be able to relate if they are going through the same things Amber Brown’s family goes through. This was a very cute, funny book!

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