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* CensorshipBySpelling: Commented on by Amber Brown in ''Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit'', in comparison to private jokes (see GettingCrapPastTheRadar below).
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* CensorshipBySpelling: Commented on by Amber Brown in ''Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit'', in comparison to adults telling private jokes (see GettingCrapPastTheRadar below).to each other, something she feels isn't fair because when kids tell jokes that they want to be private in school, the teacher makes them tell them out loud to the entire class, or gives them detention if they don't.
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* HopeIsScary: See BrokenBird above.In ''Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit'', Amber is worried about letting her mother's new boyfriend, Max, into her life, because she fears that if she comes to like him, she'll just be upset in a few months when he leaves like her father did.
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* SilentTreatment: In ''What a Trip, Amber Brown'', Amber Brown subjects her best friend Justin Daniels to this after he splashes her in the pool and otherwise gets on her nerves, but he soon manages to get her to forgive him.
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* YoureNotMyFather: In ''Amber Brown is On the Move'', the title character shouts this after her new stepfather, Max, gets on her case about not packing the stuff in her room for their upcoming move to their new house. She's upset at herself, as she normally likes Max reasonably well, and it causes her to realize that she needs some help from her friends.
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* YoureNotMyFather: In ''Amber Brown is On the Move'', the title character shouts this after her new stepfather, Max, gets on her case about not packing the stuff in her room for their upcoming move to their new house. She's upset at herself, as she normally likes Max reasonably well, and it causes her to realize that she needs some help from her friends.friends.
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* AmicableExes: For the most part, throughout the series, Amber Brown's parents are ''not'' this. However, by the end of ''Amber Brown is Horsing Around'', they seem to be moving towards it, if only because they've both come to realize their childish bickering and bad-mouthing each other hasn't been good for Amber.
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* BegoneBribe: ''Amber Brown is Green With Envy'' combines both the AnnoyingYoungerSibling and the DreadfulMusician variants. Dylan gets his father, his sisters and Amber, their friend, to pay him to ''not'' play the accordion around them. His father gives him five dollars, Amber gives him a dollar, Savannah fifty cents and Polly a $1.50. However, shortly after this it's discovered that he ruined one of Polly's dolls and he has to give her everything he just got, plus seven dollars on top of it.
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* InsistentTerminology: Amber hates the term "babysitter" and insists on referring to anyone who babysits her as her "Amber-sitter."
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[[folder:''Amber Brown'' books]]
*''Amber Brown is Not a Crayon''
*''You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown''
*''Amber Brown Goes Fourth''
*''Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit''
*''Forever Amber Brown''
*''Amber Brown Sees Red''
*''Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue''
*''I, Amber Brown''
*''Amber Brown is Green with Envy''
*''Amber Brown is Tickled Brown'' (Coville and Levy)
*''Amber Brown is On the Move'' (Coville and Levy)
*''Amber Brown Horses Around'' (Coville and Levy)
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[[folder:''A is for Amber'' books]]
*''What a Trip, Amber Brown''
*''It's Justin Time, Amber Brown''
*''Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown''
*''It's a Fair Day, Amber Brown''
*''Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown''
*''Orange You Glad It's Halloween, Amber Brown?''
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*''Amber Brown is Not a Crayon''
*''You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown''
*''Amber Brown Goes Fourth''
*''Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit''
*''Forever Amber Brown''
*''Amber Brown Sees Red''
*''Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue''
*''I, Amber Brown''
*''Amber Brown is Green with Envy''
*''Amber Brown is Tickled Brown'' (Coville and Levy)
*''Amber Brown is On the Move'' (Coville and Levy)
*''Amber Brown Horses Around'' (Coville and Levy)
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[[folder:''A is for Amber'' books]]
*''What a Trip, Amber Brown''
*''It's Justin Time, Amber Brown''
*''Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown''
*''It's a Fair Day, Amber Brown''
*''Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown''
*''Orange You Glad It's Halloween, Amber Brown?''
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* ToiletHumor: Part of the reason that Amber and Justin are such good friends is their shared sense of humor, including a fondness for this.
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Danziger passed away in 2004, resulting in the series ending on a cliffhanger, with Amber's mother about to get re-married. The series would see a revival in 2012, when Bruce Coville and Elizabeth Levy, whom Danziger described as a her two best friends, began writing new books in the series. The latest installment, ''Amber Brown Horses Around'', was released on September 11, 2014.
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Danziger passed away in 2004, resulting in the series ending on a cliffhanger, with Amber's mother about to get re-married. The series would see a revival in 2012, when Bruce Coville Creator/BruceCoville and Elizabeth Levy, whom Danziger described as a her two best friends, began writing new books in the series. The latest installment, ''Amber Brown Horses Around'', was released on September 11, 2014.
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* AlphaBitch: Hannah Burton. Generally regarded as the prettiest girl in Amber's class, she seems to dislike Amber for no good reason (though possibly simply because she finds her silly). She takes every opportunity to tease her and otherwise make snide comments at her and is generally just thoroughly unpleasant even though Amber has never really done anything to her at all, other than sometimes complain about her to her friends and parents ''because'' of the things she's done. It all comes to a head in ''Amber Brown Horses Around'' when the two are forced to share a tent with several other girls at summer camp. Amber gets so tired of Hannah's mean behavior and apparent pranks that she teams with the other girls to plan an elaborate prank of her own, which blows up terribly when Hannah twists her ankle after trying to run when hearing a spooky voice on a tape played as part of the prank. After this, it transpires that Hannah was ''not'' responsible for the pranks that Amber thought she was, though everyone still agrees that Hannah has been awful to Amber ever since they got to camp. In order to keep things harmonious at camp, the two decide to start making an effort to try not to be so mean to each other and take the time to think about how their behaviors and words effect each other and it seems at the end of the story that even if they could never be friends, they could possibly at least reach the point of becoming frenemies.
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* MidlifeCrisisCar: In the latter books, Amber's father drives around a very fancy sports car that Amber's mother refers to as "your father's middle-aged-man-starting-over car."
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* MidlifeCrisisCar: In the latter books, Amber's father drives around a very fancy sports car that Amber's mother refers to as "your father's middle-aged-man-starting-over car."" In ''Amber Brown Horses Around'', it's revealed that it's a red sports car that he calls his Hot Tamale, though Amber's mother is now calling it the "Midlife Folly" as a snarky rhyme.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. After Amber's father breaks a major promise to her and she justifiably gets very upset and angry, he starts taking lessons from a counselor on how to be a better parent. They seem to work.
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* SliceOfLife: It's the day-to-day adventures of a young girl who goes to school and has to deal with family, friend and general life problems.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: In ''Amber Brown Is On the Move'', Amber's dance teacher (and later her Dad's girlfriend), Miss Isobel, is bad at remember names and keeps calling her a different gem every time she sees her - "opal," "topaz," etc. Eventually, she remembers her names, but still calls her other gem names as a friendly joke.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: In ''Amber Brown Is On the Move'', Amber's dance teacher (and later her Dad's girlfriend), Miss Isobel, is bad at remember remembering names and keeps calling her a different gem every time she sees her - "opal," "topaz," etc. Eventually, she remembers her names, but still calls her other gem names as a friendly joke. It's also never made entirely clear whether she actually knew Amber's name from the start and was joking the entire time.
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->"''...one thing I, Amber Brown, have learned in nine and three-quarters years is that things are going to change whether I want them to or not. I didn't really want a new house. I like this one just fine. But Mom and Max bought it anyway. I didn't want a new life. But Mom and Dad divorced anyway. I didn't want a new best friend. But my best friend ever, Justin Daniels, moved anyway. Big changes are a big pain on the brain.''"
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* MidlifeCrisisCar: In the latter books, Amber's father drives around a very fancy sports car that Amber's mother refers to as "your father's middle-aged-man-starting-over car."
-->'''Amber''': Sometimes I think it is no surprise my parents got divorced.
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* HoldTheUnsolicitedIngredient: In ''Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon'', this is a RunningGag between Amber and Justin. They always ask for a pizza, "hold the anchovies," and then laugh at the mental image of the pizza boy holding an armful of anchovies.
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* HoldTheUnsolicitedIngredient: In ''Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon'', this is a RunningGag between Amber and Justin. They always ask for a pizza, "hold the anchovies," and then laugh at the mental image of the pizza boy holding an armful of anchovies. This recurs in all future books where she either visits him or he visits her.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: In ''Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink'', Amber, her mother and her stepfather to be visit Camp Sukkatukket, a camp owned by the father of one of Amber's classmates, Fredrich Allen. When Fredrich spots them, he drops a hammer that he was using to repair the cabin porch out of shock because he wasn't expecting Amber and her family there and the two of them aren't even friends at the time. (Though they become friends during the visit.)
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: In ''Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink'', Amber, her mother and her stepfather to be visit Camp Sukkatukket, a camp owned by the father of one of Amber's classmates, Fredrich Allen. When Fredrich spots them, he drops a hammer that he was using to repair the cabin porch out of shock and then starts hopping up and down. He dropped it because he wasn't expecting Amber and her family there and the two of them aren't even friends at the time. (Though they become friends during the visit.)
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: In ''Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink'', Amber, her mother and her stepfather to be visit Camp Sukkatukket, a camp owned by the father of one of Amber's classmates, Fredrich Allen. When Fredrich spots them, he drops a hammer that he was using to repair the cabin porch out of shock because he wasn't expecting Amber and her family there and the two of them aren't even friends at the time. (Though they become friends during the visit.)
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* HiddenDepths: Throughout most of the series, Amber dismisses the possibility of ever being friends with a classmate of hers named Fredrich Allen because he picks his nose and chews the boogers, and she doesn't think she could ever be friends with someone who does that. In ''Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink'', however, she meets him at his father's farm and comes to realize pretty quickly that the picking and eating is just a bad nervous habit, rather like how she sometimes chews on her hair or her nails, and learns that Fredrich is actually a pretty nice boy. After this, she becomes very annoyed with her other friends when they tease him behind his back, just like she used to do with them, only now she feels guilty about it.
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* AuthorAppeal: In the ''A is for Amber'' books, Amber's best friend Justin declares that first grade is the "year of the chicken joke" and tells only chicken jokes the whole year. In a bonus feature included in ''Amber Grown is Green With Envy'' (one of the books from the main series), "Things you should know about Paula Danziger," Danziger states "I love chicken jokes."
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* BrokenBird: In ''Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit'', Amber seems a bit like this. She's worried about letting her mother's new boyfriend, Max, into her life, because she fears that if she comes to like him, she'll just be upset in a few months when he leaves like her father did. She's also generally upset with her lot in life, feeling like she doesn't have any control over what's happening around her.
* CensorshipBySpelling: Commented on by Amber Brown in ''Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit'', in comparison to private jokes (see GettingCrapPastTheRadar below).
* CensorshipBySpelling: Commented on by Amber Brown in ''Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit'', in comparison to private jokes (see GettingCrapPastTheRadar below).
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In ''Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit'', Amber comments "Come on, everyone, let's turn on the oven and do some pre-heating." This causes Amber's mother and her boyfriend Max to laugh, but when Amber asks what for, she's told that it's a private joke. This causes her to rage to herself about this sort of adult hypocrisy, as whenever kids tell a joke that they want to keep private, they're made to tell anyway, asked "... would you like to share that with the rest of the class?" and if they don't, they get detention.
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* CordonBleughChef: Amber Brown's favorite Amber-sitter, Brenda, is this. She once made Amber a meat loaf with a hard-boiled egg in it. Another time, she told Amber of her Velveeta whipped potatoes and spaghetti diablo, but fortunately they already had pizza on the way.
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* SuckECheeses: In ''Forever Amber Brown'', Justin and Amber visit Say Cheese. Although they do offer very cheesy pizza, which Amber and Justin get and enjoy, they also offer pretty much anything else with cheese you can think of; burritos, cheesecakes, Cheese Doodles, dumplings, etc. It's a Type 2 example-- the food is good, the games are high-tech and fun, and there are displays where kids can have their pictures taken and pretend to be in various scenes, like aliens in space.
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* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Installments released after Paula Danziger's passing are styled as "Paula Danziger's Amber Brown."
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** Danziger was a fan of children's literature in general and regularly name-dropped other titles in these books. In the ''A is for Amber'' book ''Orange You Glad It's Halloween, Amber Brown?'', Amber's best friend Justin dresses a pumpkin in underpants and calls it "Literature/CaptainUnderpants." Amber has a cousin named Lily who has a [[http://www.amazon.com/Lillys-Purple-Plastic-Purse-Henkes/dp/0688128971/ purple plastic purse]]. In one of the books in the original series, Amber's teacher reads Pam Munoz Ryan and Brian Selznick's ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Amelia-And-Eleanor-For-Ride/dp/059096075X/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1414078286&sr=8-13&keywords=brian+selznick Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride]]'' to her class.
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* ShoutOut: One of Amber's friends has a sheepdog named [[Film/ANewHope Darth Vader]].
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* {{Prequel}}: Not babies, but the ''A is for Amber'' books featured rather younger versions of Amber and Justin, before Justin moved away and Amber's parents got divorced.
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* {{Prequel}}: Not babies, but the The ''A is for Amber'' books featured rather younger versions of Amber and Justin, before Justin moved away and Amber's parents got divorced.
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* SpinOffBabies: Not babies, but the ''A is for Amber'' books featured rather younger versions of Amber and Justin, before Justin moved away and Amber's parents got divorced.
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* SpinOffBabies: {{Prequel}}: Not babies, but the ''A is for Amber'' books featured rather younger versions of Amber and Justin, before Justin moved away and Amber's parents got divorced.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure & ScheduleSlip: Paula Danziger passed away in 2004, so the series ended due to her death until Coville and Levy brought it back. Before that, there was a schedule slip of about four years between 1999 and 2003 for the main series, filled by the ''A is for Amber'' books instead.
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'''''Amber Brown''''' is a series of books written by Paula Danziger (''The Cat Ate My Gymsuit'', ''Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?'', etc.) and illustrated by Tony Ross. Realistic fiction, the books focused on the adventures of the titular character, Amber Brown, who had to deal with some tough real-life problems such as the divorce of her parents and her best friend moving away. Despite the often serious nature of the material, the books contained a fair amount of humor and a generally optimistic tone. Amber was also featured in ''A is for Amber'', a series of early-reader picture books presenting the adventures of the young Amber before her parents got divorced and before her friend Justin moved away.
Danziger passed away in 2004, resulting in the series ending on a cliffhanger, with Amber's mother about to get re-married. The series would see a revival in 2012, when Bruce Coville and Elizabeth Levy, whom Danziger described as a her two best friends, began writing new books in the series. The latest installment, ''Amber Brown Horses Around'', was released on September 11, 2014.
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!!The ''Amber Brown'' books provide examples of the following:
*AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Amber can sometimes be easily distracted. She has to go for special classes because she has trouble concentrating to take standardized tests.
*AuthorExistenceFailure & ScheduleSlip: Paula Danziger passed away in 2004, so the series ended due to her death until Coville and Levy brought it back. Before that, there was a schedule slip of about four years between 1999 and 2003 for the main series, filled by the ''A is for Amber'' books instead.
*DeliberatelyCuteChild: Amber in the ''A is for Amber'' books.
*DivorceIsTemporary: Amber keeps hoping it's true, but eventually has to come to terms with the fact that isn't.
*HoldTheUnsolicitedIngredient: In ''Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon'', this is a RunningGag between Amber and Justin. They always ask for a pizza, "hold the anchovies," and then laugh at the mental image of the pizza boy holding an armful of anchovies.
*MaliciousMisnaming: Sometimes some kids tease Amber by calling her color names other than "Amber" or "Brown."
*SpinOffBabies: Not babies, but the ''A is for Amber'' books featured rather younger versions of Amber and Justin, before Justin moved away and Amber's parents got divorced.
*YoureNotMyFather: In ''Amber Brown is On the Move'', the title character shouts this after her new stepfather, Max, gets on her case about not packing the stuff in her room for their upcoming move to their new house. She's upset at herself, as she normally likes Max reasonably well, and it causes her to realize that she needs some help from her friends.
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'''''Amber Brown''''' is a series of books written by Paula Danziger (''The Cat Ate My Gymsuit'', ''Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?'', etc.) and illustrated by Tony Ross. Realistic fiction, the books focused on the adventures of the titular character, Amber Brown, who had to deal with some tough real-life problems such as the divorce of her parents and her best friend moving away. Despite the often serious nature of the material, the books contained a fair amount of humor and a generally optimistic tone. Amber was also featured in ''A is for Amber'', a series of early-reader picture books presenting the adventures of the young Amber before her parents got divorced and before her friend Justin moved away.
Danziger passed away in 2004, resulting in the series ending on a cliffhanger, with Amber's mother about to get re-married. The series would see a revival in 2012, when Bruce Coville and Elizabeth Levy, whom Danziger described as a her two best friends, began writing new books in the series. The latest installment, ''Amber Brown Horses Around'', was released on September 11, 2014.
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!!The ''Amber Brown'' books provide examples of the following:
*AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Amber can sometimes be easily distracted. She has to go for special classes because she has trouble concentrating to take standardized tests.
*AuthorExistenceFailure & ScheduleSlip: Paula Danziger passed away in 2004, so the series ended due to her death until Coville and Levy brought it back. Before that, there was a schedule slip of about four years between 1999 and 2003 for the main series, filled by the ''A is for Amber'' books instead.
*DeliberatelyCuteChild: Amber in the ''A is for Amber'' books.
*DivorceIsTemporary: Amber keeps hoping it's true, but eventually has to come to terms with the fact that isn't.
*HoldTheUnsolicitedIngredient: In ''Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon'', this is a RunningGag between Amber and Justin. They always ask for a pizza, "hold the anchovies," and then laugh at the mental image of the pizza boy holding an armful of anchovies.
*MaliciousMisnaming: Sometimes some kids tease Amber by calling her color names other than "Amber" or "Brown."
*SpinOffBabies: Not babies, but the ''A is for Amber'' books featured rather younger versions of Amber and Justin, before Justin moved away and Amber's parents got divorced.
*YoureNotMyFather: In ''Amber Brown is On the Move'', the title character shouts this after her new stepfather, Max, gets on her case about not packing the stuff in her room for their upcoming move to their new house. She's upset at herself, as she normally likes Max reasonably well, and it causes her to realize that she needs some help from her friends.
