Danziger, Paula

Entering fourth grade, Amber faces some changes in her life as her best friend moves away and her parents divorce.

Eleven-year-old aspiring artist Skate experiences many changes when she enters middle school, finds her best friend drifting away from her, and loses her beloved great-uncle.

Amber Brown and Justin Daniels are best friends. But when Justin finds out that he is moving away, everything begins to change.

Unlike her best friend Justin, Amber Brown loves to measure time and hopes to receive a watch on her seventh birthday.

Marcy defends a controversial teacher and incurs the wrath of her school and her father.

Upset with her parents for arguing on what she hoped would be a perfect day, Amber gets lost at a county fair when she tries to follow her best friend Justin and his family through the crowd.

Aurora loves her life on Earth in the twenty-first century, until she learns that her family is moving to the colony on the moon.

Because her divorced parents share joint custody of her, nine-year-old Amber suffers from lack of self-esteem and feels that she is a piece of jointly-owned property.

Thirteen-year-old Marcy Lewis and her friends rally together to try and get the school board to reinstate their English teacher who was fired for her refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance.