Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon vs The View from Saturday: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon Paula Danziger · 1993 ★★★★☆ 4.1 80 pages · ≈ 1 h 29 m · Light

The year she is in the third grade is a sad time for Amber because her best friend Justin is getting ready to move to a distant state.

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Cover of The View from Saturday The View from Saturday E. L. Konigsburg · 1996 ★★★★☆ 3.8 169 pages · ≈ 3 h 08 m · Moderate

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

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Amber Brown Is Not a CrayonThe View from Saturday
Goodreads — 3.8 (46922)
Hardcover 3.5 (11) —
Google Books — 4.0 (1)
Apple Books 4.5 (29) 4.0 (197)

Reception

Amber Brown Is Not a CrayonThe View from Saturday
Ratings 29 46922
Editions 19 26
Citations — 8
Film adaptations — 1
Wikipedia attention — 749
Pages 80 169

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