DIVORCE EXPRESS SERIES

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"The Divorce Express"

Grades: 5 - 9

Series: Divorce Express

Year Published: 1982

No one wants to ride the Divorce Express. Especially Phoebe. It means leaving her New York City apartment and friends, moving to the country with her dad, and tak­ing the bus every weekend to visit her mom in the city. It means she has to go to ninth grade in a new...

No one wants to ride the Divorce Express. Especially Phoebe. It means leaving her New York City apartment and friends, moving to the country with her dad, and tak­ing the bus every weekend to visit her mom in the city. It means she has to go to ninth grade in a new school and see her father go on dates. It’s a hectic life with no time to feel she really belongs with the kids in either place. Then, just when Phoebe gets a handle on juggling the pieces of her life, her mother makes a decision that will change everything again. How can Phoebe be herself and still be part of both her parents’ worlds?

"The specific problems--and seeming resiliency--of the children of divorced parents, as well as the general concerns of young teenagers, are ably evoked. And it's a pleasure to have a young heroine, without undue angst, who is popular and gets the boy she wants." - -The New York Times Book Review

"Danziger's light style laced with humor will continue to attract readers." -Booklist

"The author has a sympathetic eye for the ups an downs of her characten and a quick ear for adolescent conversation." -Horn Book

"It's an Aardvark eat Turtle World"

Grades: 5 - 9

Series: Divorce Express

Year Published: 1985

What could be better? Rosie and Phoebe have been best friends since they met on the Divorce Express, shuttling between their parents on weekends. Now Rosie’s mom and Phoebe’s dad have fallen in love, and...

What could be better? Rosie and Phoebe have been best friends since they met on the Divorce Express, shuttling between their parents on weekends. Now Rosie’s mom and Phoebe’s dad have fallen in love, and they’re all mov­ing in together. Rosie has always dreamed of having a “real” family, but having Phoebe as a sister and having Phoebe as a best friend are two very different things. And having an extra parent around isn’t easy for anyone to get used to. It seemed like the perfect set­up, but can their friendship sur­vive in the same house?