Amber Brown is Feeling Blue

Amber Brown if Feeling Blue
Author: Paula Danzinger
Illustrator: Tony Ross
Realistic Fiction

Amber Brown is just an ordinary girl with an extrodinary name. She takes great pride in the fact that her name is a color, she even dresses up as a crayon for Halloween. One evening Amber's mom and her fiance Max ask her if she'd like to visit her future family members in Walla Walla Washington. Excited about the idea of adventure, she accepts to take a trip with them for Thanksgiving. Just as Amber thought that everything was working out, she remembers that her Dad will be arriving back in town from Paris for that same weekend. She is torn between two sides when her parents ask her to choose which she would rather do. Should she spend time with her Dad, who will be all alone on Thanksgiving and whom she has not seen in months? Or should she go to Walla Walla as promised? Amber tries to find ways to distract herself, and just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, a new girl at school arrives, and her name is a color too! Amber eventually befriends the infamous Kelly Green and decides to have a girls night to take some stress off her looming decision. When the time comes Amber decides to spend Thanksgiving with her Dad since he will be all alone, and agrees to spend Christmas with the rest of the family. While Amber is still unsure whether she did the right thing, her father is happy and that is all she wants.