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Amber
Amber Lee thinks she is haunted. Approaching her 10th birthday, she and her mom have moved again. But she is sure they have been followed—by The Voice. It stalks her wherever she goes, and is causing her to do bad things now. Could The Voice belong to an evil spirit? Or is it just her imagination?
102 pages, Paperback
First published October 19, 2007
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Dave Webb
50 books1 followerDave Webb is an author and educator from Pennsylvania. His tenth book, Mr. Nomad: Tales of a Traveling Teacher chronicles his nearly thirty-year career as an elementary school teacher in three states.
Webb started his writing career as a newspaper reporter. Soon he felt a calling to become a teacher. He has taught fourth and fifth grade for more than twenty years.
After becoming a teacher, Webb had an itch to do more writing. That's when he decided to write a humorous children's book loosely based on true events. Slinky Inkermann and the Crazy Contest was published in 1996, followed by two sequels.
In 2007 Webb published a short novel for young adults entitled Amber. The book tells the story of a young girl whose unstable home life causes her to hear disturbing voices. The heart-wrenching story is fast-paced and addresses the problem of domestic abuse and neglect from a child's point of view.
In 2012 Webb published Barkley Rules, which is a humorous chapter book about a sixth-grader who tries to rid his middle school of bullying.
Two more books followed in 2013. A sequel to Amber, entitled Amber Lee, was published in March. Then came a new edition of the second Slinky Inkermann book, Superfreaky Summer.
In 2015 Webb released The Challenge for ages 7-10 and The House on Eerie Street for ages 9-12.
Webb started his writing career as a newspaper reporter. Soon he felt a calling to become a teacher. He has taught fourth and fifth grade for more than twenty years.
After becoming a teacher, Webb had an itch to do more writing. That's when he decided to write a humorous children's book loosely based on true events. Slinky Inkermann and the Crazy Contest was published in 1996, followed by two sequels.
In 2007 Webb published a short novel for young adults entitled Amber. The book tells the story of a young girl whose unstable home life causes her to hear disturbing voices. The heart-wrenching story is fast-paced and addresses the problem of domestic abuse and neglect from a child's point of view.
In 2012 Webb published Barkley Rules, which is a humorous chapter book about a sixth-grader who tries to rid his middle school of bullying.
Two more books followed in 2013. A sequel to Amber, entitled Amber Lee, was published in March. Then came a new edition of the second Slinky Inkermann book, Superfreaky Summer.
In 2015 Webb released The Challenge for ages 7-10 and The House on Eerie Street for ages 9-12.
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April 29, 2008
Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com
Readers fascinated by Dave Pelzer and A CHILD CALLED IT will want to pick up a copy of AMBER by Dave Webb. It tells the heartbreaking story of a little girl's struggle to survive in a world of neglect and abuse.
Life has not been kind to 10-year-old Amber, but recently things have gotten worse. She has been uprooted and moved so many times in an effort to escape her mother's abusive boyfriend that she can barely remember what the last place looked like.
When Amber returns home from school, she finds her mother gone. Hopefully, she is at work, but the passing time and her continued absence point in another direction. Warned to head straight home from school and not to talk to anyone makes having friends almost impossible for Amber. Now there is no one to turn to for help.
Finally, her mother shows up, drunk but apologetic. Amber's only real escape is her Fantasy. It's a place she calls her Kingdom, with kings and queens and all the trappings of royal life. The bad part of her Fantasy is the Voices. They are often frightening, and Amber fears that telling someone will only label her as crazy.
Amber finds friendship and some comfort when she teams up with a runaway named Shayna. Together they offer each other safety and companionship, at least temporarily.
Author Dave Webb has crafted an emotional story about Amber and her struggle to get past her fears and have her voice heard by someone who cares; someone who can help her. Although less than 100 pages, Webb reaches the hearts of his readers as Amber suffers emotional and physical stress and abuse from her absentee mother; Greg, her mother's abusive boyfriend; and teasing taunts from bullying classmates. Can she survive her environment and find that "someone" who cares?
Readers fascinated by Dave Pelzer and A CHILD CALLED IT will want to pick up a copy of AMBER by Dave Webb. It tells the heartbreaking story of a little girl's struggle to survive in a world of neglect and abuse.
Life has not been kind to 10-year-old Amber, but recently things have gotten worse. She has been uprooted and moved so many times in an effort to escape her mother's abusive boyfriend that she can barely remember what the last place looked like.
When Amber returns home from school, she finds her mother gone. Hopefully, she is at work, but the passing time and her continued absence point in another direction. Warned to head straight home from school and not to talk to anyone makes having friends almost impossible for Amber. Now there is no one to turn to for help.
Finally, her mother shows up, drunk but apologetic. Amber's only real escape is her Fantasy. It's a place she calls her Kingdom, with kings and queens and all the trappings of royal life. The bad part of her Fantasy is the Voices. They are often frightening, and Amber fears that telling someone will only label her as crazy.
Amber finds friendship and some comfort when she teams up with a runaway named Shayna. Together they offer each other safety and companionship, at least temporarily.
Author Dave Webb has crafted an emotional story about Amber and her struggle to get past her fears and have her voice heard by someone who cares; someone who can help her. Although less than 100 pages, Webb reaches the hearts of his readers as Amber suffers emotional and physical stress and abuse from her absentee mother; Greg, her mother's abusive boyfriend; and teasing taunts from bullying classmates. Can she survive her environment and find that "someone" who cares?
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