Amber Brown Is Green with Envy by Paula Danziger

Author:Paula Danziger [Danziger, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101657195
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2003-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Kelly Green has a mobile phone, parents who are still married to each other, and she has no problems.

I, Amber Brown, am green with envy about my friend Kelly Green.

That makes Kelly a green without envy.

She is so lucky.

And she has a sheepdog too, named Darth Vader….. a dog that doesn’t even mind when we put nail polish on his toes. She has a cat, Fluffy…who doesn’t let us polish her toes.

I can’t have animals because my mom is allergic to them.

I hope that wherever we move once had a kennel of dogs and cats living in the house, and the animal hair is still all over the place, even in the paint in the walls. That will give my mother something to sneeze at.

Brandi sighs. “Amber, I am so sorry that I can’t come over too. But I have a music lesson and my parents said that if I don’t go to my lessons, I have to pay out of my allowance for the ones I miss…unless I’m sick….. and there is no way that I can say that I am sick and then go over to Kelly’s house.”

Brandi says, “I’ll call you tonight. Gotta go now.”

Kelly talks into the phone for a minute and then smiles, turns off the call and puts the phone into her backpack. “Mom said it’s fine for you to come over to the house. She’s going to call your mom to make sure that it is okay with her….. and then your mom will call the school and let them know that it is okay.”

Mrs. Green and Max are the two grownups, other than my parents, who can take me out of school….. and my parents have it worked out that when one of them takes me out of school for something, then the other one has to give permission.

Not all of the kids in school have to have both parents’ permissions, but some do. I think it’s a divorce thing.

I know that neither of my parents would kidnap me. I know that’s why there is the sign-up thing. They don’t think that kids can figure that out, but we can. My parents would never do that….. unless moving counts as kidnapping.

Kelly and I wait for her mom in front of the office.

“Ms. Brown. Ms. Green.” Mrs. Parker, one of the fifth-grade teachers, comes up to us. “Aren’t you two quite the colorful pair! Brown and Green. It sounds like a meeting of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.”

Today, I am not in the mood to hear colorful jokes.

I wonder if I said something to Mrs. Parker about her name, how she would feel about that.

I think what I could say….. like “If you are a twin, does that make you a double-parker?”

Mrs. Green arrives before I say anything.

That’s probably a good thing.

I, Amber Brown, am getting grumpy…and that’s not a good thing.

The way that I’m feeling now is not like me.

I’m really mad, and I can’t seem to get out of my mood.

I’ve never been this mad….

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