Paula Danziger

Third grade is a sad time for Amber because her best friend Justin is getting ready to move to a distant state.

Amber Brown is Not a Crayon

Ann M. Martin

Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara*Starr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara*Starr's family moves to another state, in a complex and emotionally rich novel about two friends coping with overwhelming change. Reprint. PW. NYT.

P.S. Longer Letter Later

When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, a junior high student uses her new found courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement.

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

At the end of third grade, Amber is excited about her trip with her aunt to London and Paris, where she will see her father again, but her plans change when she comes down with chicken pox.

You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown

Tony Ross

Amber Brown's parents just aren't acting the way she thinks parents should. Sometimes Amber's dad goes out on dates when he is supposed to be spending time with her. Then Mom and Max decide to get married even sooner and move. Some kids seem to have no problems, and that makes Amber Brown green with envy.

Amber Brown Is Green with Envy

Elizabeth and Tara*Starr have kept their relationship going through a series of correspondence and do so more frequently than ever via email, but with recent changes, their differences seem more obvious than ever and they both wonder if their friendship will last much longer. Reprint.

Snail Mail No More

Fifteen-year-old Aurora finds her perfect life upset when her parents, hoping to have Aurora become more serious and sensible, decide to become settlers on the moon.

This Place Has No Atmosphere

Amber Brown Goes Fourth

Because her divorced parents share joint custody of her, nine-year-old Amber suffers from lack of self-esteem and feels that she is a piece of jointly-owned property.

I, Amber Brown

Amber tries to deal with escalating telephone fights between her divorced parents .

Amber Brown Sees Red

Getting fed up when her room falls into shambles, her homework is late, and her mother begins to date someone, a frustrated Amber Brown wishes that someone would give her a little credit. Reprint. AB. PW.

Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit

Amber Brown has always enjoyed being the only kid in school with a two-color name. Until a new girl joins her forth-grade class- Kelly Green!

Amber Brown is Feeling Blue

The Pistachio Prescription

Is Amber Brown ready for fourth grade? She has new sneakers, new notebooks and pencils, but she doesn't have what she really needs--a new best friend. How can Amber go fourth without one? Who will be Amber's best friend?

Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue (Amber Brown)

Amber Brown Sees Red (Amber Brown)

Marcy Lewis is bored by school, she despairs of ever being thin, and she is certain she'll never have a date. Life at h ome isn't great either, since her father bosses her and her mother around.

Then along comes Ms. Finney, an English teacher who will try anything in the classroom, and above all, a teacher who acts human. Marcy has never met anyone like her, and suddenly life in and out of school begins to have a purpose.

When Ms. Finney is suspended because of her controversial teaching methods, the school is thrown into an uproar. When Marcy, now out of her shell, helps to organize a protest, she too is suspended. With her mother firmly on her side, her father violetnly opposed, Marcy mus decide whether her fight for Ms. Finney and the values she stands for is worth the price she must pay at home and in school.

--back cover

Now that they live in different cities, thirteen-year-old Tara and Elizabeth use email to "talk" about everything that is occuring in their lives and to try to maintain their closeness as they face big changes.

Amber's mom is thinking of getting married. This will change everything! But no matter what her mom decides, Amber will be forever Amber Brown. Picture frame key chain included in every copy.

Forever Amber Brown

When Rosie and her mother form a new family with Rosie's best friend and her father, Rosie finds that it takes a lot of work to make a family in a world of changing relationships.

Paula Danziger

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