You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown

77 Pages·2006·2.57 MB·English

by  Danziger Paula

MY ITCHES HAVE ITCHES. . . .
Dear Justin, I have chicken pox.
Itch. Itch.
Scratch, scratch.
Here’s what Dr. Kelly said when she came to the flat. (Doctors in this
country actually come to your house.) She said:
1. “Amber, you have chicken pox.”
2. “There is no such thing as turkey pox.”
3. “Put calamine lotion on every day.”
4. “Don’t scratch.”
5. “You’ll live.”
My itches have itches . . . boo hoo.
And I am getting soooooooo bored.
Please write back soon.
Your pal,
Amber Brown
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I, Amber Brown
You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown
Paula Danziger
Y C ’ E Y C P ,
OU AN T AT OUR HICKEN OX
AMBER BROWN
Illustrated by Tony Ross
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First published in the United States of America by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young
Readers Group, 1995
Published by Puffin Books, a member of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2006
Copyright © Paula Danziger, 1995
Illustrations copyright © Tony Ross, 1995
All rights reserved
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS EDITION AS FOLLOWS:
Danziger, Paula, 1944–2004
You can’t eat your chicken pox, Amber Brown / Paula Danziger; illustrated by Tony Ross.
p. cm.
Summary: At the end of third grade, Amber is excited about her trip with her aunt to London and Paris,
where she will see her father again, but her plans change when she comes down with chicken pox.
[1. Divorce—Fiction. 2. Aunts—Fiction. 3. London—Description and travel—Fiction. 4. Chicken pox—
Fiction.] I. Ross, Tony, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.D2394Yo 1995
[Fic]—dc20 93-37761 CIP AC
ISBN: 978-1-101-66060-7
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To all my friends in Great Britain,
especially those at Heinemann and
Pan-Macmillan
with special thanks to a richness of editors, Gill Evans, Vix Eldon and
Margaret Frith . . . and to Bruce Coville, who listened to this entire book on
transatlantic calls . . . London-Syracuse . . . and a special acknowledgment to
Scott Jackson, who actually said it . . . and to Carrie Danziger, whose chicken
pox started it all
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
AMBER BROWN GOES FOURTH
Chapter
One
Third grade.
Here today.
Gone tomorrow.
I can hardly believe it.
It seems like just yesterday was the first day of school.
New pens, pencils, erasers, notebooks, clothes, a brain that had a chance to
take a break over summer vacation . . . all of the things a kid needs to start a new
school year.
Now it’s the last day of school . . . just in time.
My pens are out of ink. My pencils are stubs. My erasers are all erased. My
clothes are getting too small and my brain needs to take a break over summer
vacation.
It’s definitely time for school to end.
“All right, class. Take a few more minutes to finish cleaning out your desks
and then the party can begin,” Mr. Cohen, our teacher, calls out.
Waving a six-inch rubber lizard in his hand, Mr. Cohen looks ready for
vacation, too. Not only has he had to do all the regular end-of-the-year teacher
junk, but he’s also had to do lots of extra stuff . . . because of what we all call
THE POX PLAGUE.