Amber brown is a young girl,who does not like herself.She wisshes that she could change and be someone else.She wants to be perfect,she always finds the bad things that are wrong with her She never notices the good things about herself. At the end of the story she realizes that she is not going to change Amber will always be forever ''Amber Brown''.

Danziger, Paula. (1996). Forever Amber Brown. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Amber wishes her mom and Max would stop kissing. Amber likes her moms' new friend Max, but she still wants her mom and dad to get back together. Will Max become Ambers' stepfather? You must read this book to find out what really happens.

The story took place in New Jersey. Amber Brown is listening to her mother when she says that Max has asked her to marry him. Amber thinks this is the worst thing that could ever happen. What's going to happen next? Is she going to say yes? Find out when you read this book.

I have read other Amber Brown books and looked forward to reading this one. She is pretty cool. Sometimes I think she has more brains than the adults, especially her mom, who sometimes seems very spoiled and selfish for an adult. This is a funny true to life on target book. If you haven't discovered Amber Brown, this is the one.

I bought this book for my daughter to read during X'mas break. I soon as she started reading the first page, she could not put this book down. She laughed the whole time. I guess we will have to order more books for her, 'caus this one was all done in one night! Buy it for your daughters, they will enjoy it too!

if its not published yet then i havent read it yet.DUH!but when i get my hands on it,i think ms.danziger is going to amaze every one all over agin.

If you like funny books this is the book for you.

The story begins with an alien talking about earthlets, which are really babies. He doesn't understand what he's talking about, so she makes it up.

She compares them to herself. But she talks about it in a funny way.

She said what they winter were they get it. What you should not do and she jokes about it. Like don't drop them or put food in their ear and it's really funny and there's a sheep in the background and the next page has the sheep with no wool.

Her class in training but after there done with class they go to earth dressed up the same.

We found this book to be very funny. I think it will be most appreciated by adults who can associate all the double meanings in the book. The younger children will find that just the silliness of the references is funny enough to enjoy it. If they have younger siblings, they may immediatly associate the double meaning to their own family life! Definitely a 5 star book though. We came to know this book when it was featured in our neighborhood library's story hour.

This is supposedly for children, but makes a very fun present for expectant parents- especially first-timers. It provides welcome comic relief from all those "how to be a perfect parent" books!

My 21-month-old daughter seems to like the story and that it is a princess learning to use the potty (since she is too), but the potty doesn't look like a potty. She thinks its a cup. Now she wants to take my coffee up to the potty and use it.

The illustrations are nice. There are only a few words on each page, so it is a quick read. The little princess is really trying, but sometimes you just can't make it to the potty in time & that's okay.

We discovered this story in a large compilation book I bought just as my son was beginning toilet training. This story immediately became his favourite and he asked for it over and over, able to relate completely to the little princess' ups and downs with toilet training, and her eventual little accident on the floor. The sense of humour is exactly right for two and three year olds and our big story book is still known as "the potty book".

My daughter is 4 and loves this book. We keep getting it at the library and will have to buy it for her. She loves to find the belly buttons on the animals (some are a challenge). When the boy's belly button suddenly gets returned, she asks how it got there, then informs me that he had surgery. The pictures are great and it is fun to read.

This was one of the best childrens books that I have read in quite a while. The illustrations were well done and the wording was done in a fashion that younger children were able to follow quite closely, which some books fail to do. I work at a library and the children that I read it to were quite taken with it.

It is about a monster who wanted to get a boy but in the end he realised that he is so much smaller then the boy.

Children young and old will enjoy this book. I was just as mesmerized as my children when I first read it. The ending will take you by surprise-a pleasant surprise, that is. If anything, you should have a nice chuckle.

The magic finger is the thought provoking story of a little girl who could cast a curse on anyone she was angry with. The one thing that made her maddest of all was shooting animals just for the fun of it. And so when the Gregg family on the next farm went out shooting ducks, she turned their arms to wings and the ducks wings to arms. It was only after a tremendous ordeal, including being shot at by the ducks that the Greggs promised never to shoot another animal as long as they live. They even changed their names to the Egg family to remind them of their promise. The story is told from the perspective of a small eight year old girl, with magic finger, and uses the grammar, and turn of phrase that such a little girl might use, particularly near the beginning. The story therefore alternates between the first and third person, although for the bulk of the text it is indistinguishable from a standard narrative. This book has a strong underlying theme considering it's young audience, first solo reading. I would describe it as the seven year old's version of a political novel such as 1984. The theme, being animal rights, is obviously more accessible and understandable to a younger mind, but it is dealt with in an imaginative and thought provoking way. The argument which the author uses is one of empathy, basically running along the lines of "how would you like it if you were a fox, and someone started shooting at you?!" By reversing the roles of the ducks and humans, he makes the reader see the day to day life of a bird as far more taxing than they might otherwise have done, and forces them to view the ducks as more than just things. This is woven into a common childhood fantasy of having magic powers, to be used against those who are being unjust. Many children, I feel, particularly younger readers, would take the story as just a nonsensical childhood fantasy. The book's deeper meaning would be more readily apparent to a slightly older reader, or one with a special interest in the topic of animal rights.

...>Do you believe in magic? Well, if you read The Magic Finger you will! "The Magic Finger" is about a girl who has a finger that is magic. Whenever she gets mad she can't control her finger. It takes over her body and her finger points at whomever she is mad at. One day her neighbors, the Gregg family, where out hunting for birds, the girls tried to tell them that it is bad to kill birds. The Gregg family just laughed at her. Her magic finger takes over and something strange happens. If you want to know all of the Gregg problems, read the book yourself. Do you believe in magic now? Well, if you don't read the book. If you child has not read a chapter book this is a good beginning. Even if your child has read chapter books they should still read it. This book is a great book. I think all ages can read and enjoy this book...well maybe ages 4 and over. It's 63 pages long and has pictures on almost every page...

How would you like it, if you woke up and had wings? That's what happened to the Gregg family, when a girl with the magic finger got mad at them. This girl gets very angry at people and the magic in her finger happens to change their lives in funny ways. This is a great book for kids, because the magic that her finger makes creates some shocking situations. Read The Magic Finger, by Roald Dahl, because it is funny, surprising, and you'll never want to put it down.

Though it's rather slow to get going in the initial chapters, Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" builds up into a splendidly effective piece, written in highly polished prose. Dorian Gray, who is suggestively described as "charming" and "beautiful" ... is painted by his friend and admirer, Basil Hallward. Dorian, a self-centered social luminary whose character is reminiscent of Narcissus, makes a bizarre sub-Faustian wish which tragically comes true: that his beautiful portrait may age, while he retains his youthful looks. The conclusion is disastrous, the culmination of a narrative containing elements of murder, suicide, blackmail, a confrontation in a grimy alley and an episode in an opium den. The characters are very well sketched out, particularly the triad of Dorian, Basil and the intellectual cynic, Lord Henry, Dorian's mentor and the mouthpiece of some of Wilde's most cutting amoral opinions. The style is, typically, marvellous, characterised by brilliant exchanges and aphoristic gaiety. Wilde lacerates English bourgeois culture, the conceptions of sin and virtue and the attitudes towards art of his time with tremendous aplomb. Some of his quips are patently snide, sometimes mysogynistic, as in: "Woman represents the triumph of matter over mind, while man represents the triumph of mind over morals." Oh, isn't that just despicable?! I love it!

Oscar Wilde is a man who is obsessed by appearances. In this particular novel, he follows from the moment Dorian Gray sells his soul to the devil named beauty and youth, pleasure and enjoyment, to his death and he describes how someone who looks perfect, perfectly young, intelligent, brilliant, beautiful, moral and healthy is in fact nothing but a monster decaying in all possible immoral actions, deeds and ways just under the surface. It is a very strong criticism of victorian society that considers appearances as more important than real ethics and morality. He exposes the hypocrisy of such a society where a whole class of people are nothing but perambulating pictures of perfection hiding the mire and mud of crime and evil. We can also feel another dilemma in this book. Oscar Wilde's own dilemma who has to keep up appearances, the appearances of a well behaved, well educated and perfectly integrated man in this aristocratic society of his, and who yet lives a passion and a whole basket of desires and impulses that are absolutely rejected as crimes by victorian society. We know he will not be able to hide this deeper nature forever. But the book shows that no one can evade one's being exposed and rejected, condemned and sentenced to some punishment forever. There always comes a moment when one will be exposed and rejected. This shows how deeply Oscar Wilde must have suffered in his life. The painting is nothing but a mirror of the deeper self of Dorian Gray, but a mirror who will become one day his accuser.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a story of morals, psychology and poetic justice, has furnished Oscar Wilde with the status of a classical writer. It takes place in 19th-century England, and tells of a man in the bloom of his youth who will remain forever young.

Basil Hallward is a merely average painter until he meets Dorian Gray and becomes his friend. But Dorian, who is blessed with an angelic beauty, inspires Hallward to create his ultimate masterpiece. Awed by the perfection of this rendering, he utters the wish to be able to retain the good looks of his youth while the picture were the one to deteriorate with age. But when Dorian discovers the painting cruelly altered and realizes that his wish has been fulfilled, he ponders changing his hedonistic approach.

Dorian Gray's sharp social criticism has provoked audible controversy and protest upon the book's 1890 publication, and only years later was it to rise to classical status. Written in the style of a Greek tragedy, it is popularly interpreted as an analogy to Wilde's own tragic life. Despite this, the book is laced with the right amounts of the author's perpetual jaunty wit.

In the story, Amber Brown is feeling blue, written by Paula Danziger is about a girl named Amber whose parents are divorced and for Thanksgiving, her Mom wants to take her to Walla Walla, Washington but her Dad wants to take her to New York. She doesn't want to choose - but her parents are leaving it up to her. To make things worse, Amber Brown isn't the only one in school with a colorful name anymore. Kelly Green is the new girl in her class...Amber ends up showing Kelly around the school and they become best friends.

My favorite part in the book is when Kelly sees another student throwing up so she ended up throwing up too.

I chose this book because it is about a girl my age and I wanted to learn about her life and how it compares to mine.

Jamie Keseloff
March 27, 2003
Period 2

Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue
In the story, Amber Brown is feeling blue, written by Paula Danziger is about a girl named Amber whose parents are divorced and for Thanksgiving, her Mom wants to take her to Walla Walla, Washington but her Dad wants to take her to New York. She doesn't want to choose - but her parents are leaving it up to her. To make things worse, Amber Brown isn't the only one in school with a colorful name anymore. Kelly Green is the new girl in her class.

Amber ended up going with her Mom but promised her Dad that she would go with him during Christmas break. Amber ends up showing Kelly around the school and they become best friends.

My favorite part in the book is when Kelly sees another student throwing up so she ended up throwing up too.

I chose this book because it is about a girl my age and I wanted to learn about her life and how it compares to mine.

Its a book about a girl named Amber Brown.she thinks people laugh at her because her last name is a color.Well it was halloween night and she make her own costume its was a color the color was brown.The next day that she went to school there was a new student there her name was Kelly Green.Amber had to show her around school.Amber had to go to the nurse because she needed a toothbrush and Kelly was watching her [be sick] and then she started to [be sick].And than her mom wanted Amber to go with her to Walla with her but her dad wanted her to go to New York.
And if you want to know what happend read the book!!!!!!!!!I think i acn relate to Amber Brown cause she is like me?...

The Whipping Boy is a strange book about a prince and his whipping boy. Prince "Brat," as he is called commoners, decides to runaway after deciding that his father does not pay enough attention to him. Jemmy, a street boy who serves as the prince's whipping boy, is forced to come with him. Unfortunately for the two of them, the pair runs into a couple of villains, Hold-Your-Nose-Billy and Cutwater, who decide to hold them for ransom. The villains soon confuse the two when he tells the prince to write a ransom letter for the king, and the prince reveals that he does not know how to write. The pair escape form the villains once, but spend the rest of the book trying to keep from being caught. While doing this, they run into a potato salesman and a lady with a performing bear. All is well when they turn themselves in and the prince asks his father to make them all a part of the royal court.
This book tells a good story about a time when royalty often owned such people as whipping boys. Fleischman does a great job of keeping the time period authentic, but adding enough action to keep the reader interested. He also uses dialogue that is easy to understand for young readers, but true to its time. The story also offers a great theme. It teaches children not to "judge a book by its cover," or get to know a person first before determining whether they might like that person or not. It proves to children that teamwork and kindness can overcome evil and in the end, good will prevail.
The Whipping Boy is a very good example of historical fiction for young readers. It offers a bit of historical information along with a fun, inventive plot. This book serves as a great teaching tool and is well deserving of the Newbery Award.

Join Jemmy and Prince Brat in their exciting adventure out of the kingdom and into the world. This great book contains awesome action about the prince and Jemmy getting kidnapped for ransom and how they try to escape. During their adventure they meet many people who are smart and helpful. The Whipping Boy is also fun because the tricks they play on the villains will make you laugh. The setting is in a world a long time ago. If you want to read a great book in about a night read this book.

Prince Horace is called Prince Brat because he is very mischievous. So the king calls Jemmy, an orphan boy, to get whipped instead of the prince because no one is allowed to whip the prince. The prince gets bored in the castle and decides to run away and brings Jemmy with him. They meet up with Hold-Your-Nose Billy and Cutwater, who are thieves. These bad guys kidnap the prince and Jemmy and they think Jemmy is the prince because the real prince cannot write. That helps the prince and Jemmy escape. Then they meet Petunia, a dancing bear tamer and Captain Nips a salesman. Read the book to see if get back to the palace.

I think this story was good because it is pretty hilarious. For example the bad guys almost got eaten by rats. I also liked it because it was not a story with sorrow or unhappiness but it is an exciting adventure. This book has no violence. Another reason I like it is that it is set in the Medieval Age. I would recommend this book for ages seven and up.

Review by Akshay Belur

This story is about a prince who is bored out of his mind and thinks he should run away from home. This is book is good for people who like funny and short books in grades 4 and up.
Some of the main characters are Hold Your Nose Billy, Jemmy, Prince Brat, Petunia, Captain Nips. Hold Your Nose Billy and Capiton Nips are really mean people who like garlic. They kidnapp Prince Brat and Jemmy. Prince Brat is a boy who you think has a perfect life but he does not think so. He thinks he has a boring life. Petunia is a bear who saves Jemmy and Prince Brats lives.
The main part of the story begins when Prince Brat and Jemmy run away from home and get kidnapped. It is set in a forest and in a palace in an imaginary time long ago.
I think the theme is never run away. Just stay home with your family. Sometimes you don't realize how good you have it. Also, learning to read is very important.