Amber Brown is Feeling Blue
Illustrator
Tony Ross
Publisher
G.P Putnam's Sons
Publication Year
1998
ISBN
9780142416860
Pages
133 pages
Genre
realism
Format
chapter book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
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.
Grade Level
K-3; 3-5
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Divorce; divorced parents
Main Character
girl
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
divorced parents
Awards
ABC Children's Booksellers Choices Award, 1999, Winner, Beginning Readers
Keywords
Thanksgiving; new girl; decisions; Washington; New York
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Danziger, Paula, "Amber Brown is Feeling Blue" (1998). Diverse Families. 1048.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1048