YOU CAN'T EAT YOUR CHICKEN POX, AMBER BROWN

The second Amber Brown book.

You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown by Paula Dazinger follows Amber Brown during the summer before fourth grade. She and her Aunt Pam go to London, England, and then Amber will visit her dad in France. Unfortunately, she catches the chicken pox while in London, so her has to rearrange her plans of sightseeing and seeing her father as she gets treatment. She also wishes her parents could get back together and remarry. 

The book title gets its name from a letter Amber's friend Justin sends her when he talked about one of his new classmates who got the chicken pox and said they look like button candy. But then he reminds her jokingly she can't eat her chicken pox, even if they look like little red pieces of candy. The book's story overall is as simple as it sounds, but it was entertaining enough for me! It made me feel like going to London for vacation. 

I did give it 4 stars though. Some of the things Amber says about London felt a little ignorant, but she is only in third/fourth grade, so she is still pretty naive. It just felt awkward to read her thoughts as an adult who knows more. There is also one part of the book where she encounters pigeons at Trafalgar Square and, well, you know what pigeons do after they eat (yuck!). But other than that it was a good book!

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