Orange You Glad It's Halloween, Amber Brown? (A Is for Amber)

by Paula Danziger

Amber Brown (Prequel 6), A is for Amber (6)

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Amber Brown and her classmates celebrate Halloween, while Amber wonders if her parents' arguing will ruin the holiday for her.

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"Orange You Glad It's Halloween, Amber Brown?" tells the story of Amber on a Halloween day. Her parents are arguing and this causes her to feel sad and distracted most of the day. She is worried that her parent's arguing is a sign that they might get divorced. When she arrives home her parents have made up and her world seems wonderful again. This book demonstrates how a child might lack concentration at school, and not have the joy in activities that they normally would if there is conflict at home. This book also demonstrates that just because a child's parents argue does not mean they will divorce. I did not give this book 5 stars because it could have shown more diversity in the pictures of the students.
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Amber Brown is excited about Halloween, but her parents are fighting. Can things come together so she can have a fun holiday? A fun easy book for younger kids that also incorporates the tricky subject of fighting parents.
Amber Brown worries that her parents troubles will interfere with her having fun on Halloween. This is an easy book for students to read, it had a little bit of wit, but I don't think it is a book that I would enjoy reading more than once.
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Amber just wanted to have a Happy Halloween with her friend Justin. She was afraid that her parents were going to ruin it because of their arguments. They bought pumpkins to school that are dressed like their favorite book characters. Her and Justin both went to class and had fun with their classmates for Halloween. I understand how Amber feels about Halloween, it has always been one of my most favorite holidays and who wants that ruined. I loved dressing up every year. My favorite part about Halloween was walking around the neighborhood with my friends and getting good candy.
This book about Amber Brown’s Halloween. Her parents are fighting and she is worried this may ruin her Halloween. She goes to school and has a good day with her friends then she returns home. There she hands out candy and her father apologizes to her mother. She is so happy and ready to go trick-or-treating. This was a good story that I think students would be able to relate to. I would like to have this book in a future classroom.
Amber Brown is ready for Halloween even though her parents are arguing. Her and her best friend Justin were having a pumpkin party at school, but she is just ready to get home so she can get in her costume. She is worried that she won't be able to get trick-or-treating with her parents fighting though. In the end her parents make up and they all go trick-or-treating, with Amber Brown in her best costume ever.
Seemed kinda random and not as good as the original set, before the leveled readers. LFL find.

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Paula Danziger was born in Washington, D.C., on August 18, 1944. She received her Master's Degree in reading and began her career as a teacher. She has taught at the junior high, high school, and college levels. Danziger is best known for a series of children's books about Amber Brown, including Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon, You Can't Eat Your show more Chicken Pox, Amber Brown, and Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit. Each of these books deals with a "crisis" in the life of young Amber Brown, such as her progressing to fourth grade. Danziger's writing is often inspired by conversations with her niece, Carrie, who is the model for Amber Brown. Other books by Danziger include The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Remember Me to Harold Square, and Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James. Danziger has become popular in Britain where she was nominated for the British Book Award for Children. She has also received several awards in America: the Parent's Choice Award, an International Reading Association-Children's Book Council Award, and an IRA-CBC Children's Choice Award. Danziger takes time out from writing to host a literary segment on a BBC children's show, called Live and Kicking. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Children's Books, Fiction and Literature
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PZ7 .D2394 .OLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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