Paula Danziger

Overview: Amber has a lot on her mind. Her mom is engaged. Her father is moving back to the United States. Her parents fight every time they talk on the phone--and Amber is caught in the middle. It's enough to make Amber Brown see red! (Digest) The year that she is in the fourth grade is a difficult one for Amber, as she tries to deal with escalating telephone fights between her divorced parents and her father's impending return to take joint custody...

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.

Nine-year-old Amber Brown faces further complications because of her parents' divorce when her father plans to move back from Paris and she must decide which parent she will be with on Thanksgiving.

Nine-year-old Amber is nervous and excited about her mother's wedding to Max, but Amber's father makes things complicated.

Three tales featuring Amber Brown; in the first, Amber copes with her best friend moving away; in the second, Amber travels to London with the hope of reuniting her recently divorced parents; in the third, the plucky third grader moves up to the fourth grade where she longs for a new best friend.

At fourteen, Rosie, her mother, her best friend, and her best friend's father form a new family unit and find it takes a lot of work to make a family in a world of changing relationships.

Preparing to move to a new house when her mother and Max marry, Amber worries about the many challenges that are occurring in her life, including her father's new relationship and standardized tests at school.

Amber is excited to be spending the summer after fourth grade with her friends at Camp Cushetunk, but things start getting complicated when she learns that her worst enemy, Hannah Burton, is one of her bunkmates.