UK Writer
Emma Shevah
Dream On Amber
Chicken House 2014 $16.99pn 266pp
ISBN 978 1 9084 3564 4
Themes: Bullying/ Family life/ High school life/ one
parent families/ Sisters
Amber, whose full name is Amber
Alessandra Leola Kimiko Miyamoto is part Japanese and part Italian and lives in
London with her mother and younger sister. She has always missed not having a
father (he had walked out of their
lives when she was very young) and now that she is starting High School she
misses him even more. There are no happy endings in this realistic story but
anyone who has grown up in a family where one parent is missing should feel
satisfied with the resolution to the problems. This is a story with many funny
moments, which should appeal mainly to younger girls. Not, I think, a book for
the read-aloud list.
Year 6 up/
Age 10 up (I don’t know about you but I have
always found that children like to read about characters at least 2 years older
than themselves).
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