Candy Bunny Reader

  This is the 3rd book of the Amber Brown series by Paula Dazinger.  In Amber Brown Goes Fourth , Amber is finally in fourth grade! Except she isn't super excited about it because it's her first school year without her best friend, Justin, who moved away in Amber Brown is not a Crayon. Amber isn't sure if anyone else at her school wants to be her new best friend. Amber's mother has also started dating a guy at her workplace named Max, and Amber is not ready to meet him. She still wants her parents to get back together.  On the first day of fourth grade a girl Amber knew last year who was friends with her rival Hannah sits next to her. Her name is Brandi. Amber tries to befriend her at first, but a brief miscommunication happens, and Amber feels bad about it and wonders if fourth grade will be a lonely year. But her opinion on Brandi changes for the better when they start hanging out in after-school care everyday before their moms come to pick them up. Amber starts to fe...

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 ...