{"product_id":"amber-brown-goes-fourth-isbn-9780142409015","title":"Amber Brown Goes Fourth","description":"\u003cb\u003eOnly Amber Brown can handle going to a new grade without her best friend with such honesty, humor, and heart. #Amber Brown is out now on Apple TV+\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmber Brown isn't entirely ready for fourth grade. She has her pens, pencils, new clothes, and new shoes. But the one thing she doesn't have is her best friend, Justin Daniels. Justin has moved away, leaving Amber utterly best friend-less. Amber knows Justin can't be replaced, but she is on the lookout for a new friend. Brandi seems a likely choice, but does Brandi want to choose Amber in return? Will Amber Brown go fourth, and go forth, with a new best friend?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with the ups and downs of shared custody, the Amber Brown chapter books are beloved for tackling relatable dilemmas with thoughtfulness, humor, and plenty of puns.\"Entertaining and satisfying, this is a first purchase, whether or not the rest of the series is owned.\" -\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003eBorn in Washington, D.C., and raised in New York, Paula Danziger knew since second grade that she wanted to be a writer. Beginning her career as a teacher, Danziger taught at the junior high, high school, college levels. She received her Masters Degree in reading and during that time she wrote her first bestselling novel, \u003cb\u003eThe Cat Ate My Gymsuit\u003c\/b\u003e. She returned to teaching, but the success of her book encouraged her to become a full-time writer. It was non-stop for Danziger since then. Among her titles are: the enormously popular \u003cb\u003eAmber Brown\u003c\/b\u003e books as well as \u003cb\u003eRemember Me To Harold Square\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Divorce Express\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eCan You Sue Your Parents For Malpractice?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e Danziger received numerous honors, including: Parent's Choice Awards, International Reading Association - Children's Book Council Awards, a IRA-CBC Children's Choice Award and many nominations for state reading and library association awards. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown as a flamboyantly funny and deeply honest writer and speaker, Paula Danziger knew how to relate to young readers at their level. She was vital, funny, and compassionate. She knew how kids felt, what made them laugh, what they wore, collected, read, and played with. From collecting novelty toys that would make any teacher cringe, to wearing jangly earrings, funky glasses and shoes covered with beads and sequins, Paula Danziger had a direct line into kids' hearts and funnybones. She will be missed always.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Paula's memory, The Amber Brown Fund has been established to bring authors and illustrators to schools and libraries which otherwise could not afford them. Donations may be sent to The Amber Brown Fund\/ SCBWI Museum of Children’s Books, 8271 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You’re the kid who has to put her right shoe on before her left.” The salesman comes up to me with the foot-measuring thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Yup.” I nod. “You remember!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“How can I forget?” The salesman puts my right foot into the measurer. “The one time I didn’t do it your way, you refused to get any shoes . . . . and you accused me of ruining your day . . . . and you threatened to report me to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Who Need to Put Their Right Shoe On Before Their Left.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hold out my right foot and wonder why he’s acting like that’s so strange. I’m sure that I’m not the only person in the whole entire world who likes to have some things done a certain way. With the way my life goes, it’s nice to be sure of some things . . . and I’m sure that I like to put my right shoe on before my left. It makes me feel weird if my left shoe goes on first. In fact, it messes up my entire day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA little kid comes over and grabs my foot, the left one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Foot,” she says.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother picks her up. “Sorry she’s bothering you. She’s learning the names for body parts.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m glad that the foot is the part of the body she decided to name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll around us there are kids . . . . trying on shoes . . . . blowing up balloons . . . . . yelling, “I want those”; “I hate those.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne kid is throwing a temper tantrum because his mother won’t buy him sandals for school.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe salesman continues, “And you’ve got that very colorful name.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI sigh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy mother looks at her watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe thinks for a minute. “Ebony Black. . . . . No, that’s not it. Pearl White. No.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“AMBER BROWN,” I remind him, “and I don’t like to be teased about it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Isn’t there another family that you always come in with to buy shoes for the new school year?” he asks. “With two little boys, one about your age?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“They’ve moved away,” my mother says softly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll of a sudden, I get this empty feeling inside of me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis will be the first time in my life that I’ll be starting school without my best friend, Justin Daniels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI try not to think about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’ve been trying not to think about it all summer, especially since I got back from England with my aunt Pam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy mother puts her hand on mine. “She’d like to see the sneakers with the rhinestones on them.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man puts down the measurer and looks up information on a card file. “She’s grown. Up another shoe size. . . . . Oh, well . . . . it could have been worse. She could have grown another foot. Then you’d have to buy three shoes.” He laughs at his own joke. “Just a little shoe-business humor.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he goes to the back of the store, he sings, “There’s no business like shoe business.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI look at my mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe looks at me and shrugs. “The shoes are good quality and cheaper here than the other store. I know he drives you nuts . . . but think what you would be like if you had to be with children and their feet all day.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It would be a real feat.” I giggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You would have to put your heart into it, body and soles.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe both start to laugh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time the guy comes back, my mother and I are both singing, “There’s no business like shoe business.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe joins in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI try on my new shoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey’re perfect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Puffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300047769829,"sku":"NP9780142409015","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142409015.jpg?v=1767721394","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/amber-brown-goes-fourth-isbn-9780142409015","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}