- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books; New edition edition (29 May 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330296574
- ISBN-13: 978-0330296571
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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- #28 in Books > Children's Books > Authors & Illustrators > D > Danziger, Paula
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Like other Danziger ninth graders, Phoebe Brooks works out problems with her divorced parents and, on the side, acquires a boyfriend who's a "good kisser" and a caring person. She also gets involved in a protest-turned-constructive-committee to improve the yucky cafeteria food at the high school she attends in Woodstock, where she and her father have moved since the divorce. About her cafeteria involvement, Phoebe remarks: "In Woodstock a lot of grown-ups are . . . fighting for good causes, like against nuclear power plants. . . . I think that when kids grow up seeing their parents involved, the kids get involved too." Perhaps in an attempt to make Phoebe less trivial than her previous heroines, Danziger makes her a depository of bumper-sticker virtues, just like all those Woodstock cars. She's for granola cookies and against fur coats, likes the way a friend sends smoking guests outdoors ("We care too much about people to be part of their harming themselves"), and comments, when the doorman tells her that her mother's upper-east-side New York City apartment building may go coop, "I worry though that some people may be evicted, especially some of the poor people and some of the older people on fixed incomes." Phoebe is far more troubled by her mother's proposed marriage to a rich creep, but she finds some instant wisdom to help her through that, too. "I have to learn how to handle this new situation so that it works out well for me - as well as it can without being really what I want. That's it, isn't it?" she asks her approving, understanding father, who has given up a good city job to paint in Woodstock. Now he has taken up with a suitable Woodstock type, the mother of the best friend Phoebe has met on the Divorce Express - her name for the bus that shuttles kids between their Woodstock and New York City parents. Phoebe likes to rearrange the letters in names and key words, and in the end she finds that the letters in DIVORCES also spell DISCOVER. But there isn't much to find behind these snappy lines and readymade attitudes. (Kirkus Reviews)
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"Danziger's light style laced with humour will continue to attract readers."
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although I am now 18 I still have to read this book at least twice a year! I've read 'The Divorce Express' around ten times since I first found it in junior school. Rather then just being about the effects of divorce, the book also covers many teenage emotions, from going out on a first date and having to make new friends, right through to the relationships between parents and their children. For me, this book is one of the few that I can say has 'survivied'. It has managed to transend through a decade of my life and it still makes me feel warm inside!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When Pheobe's parents get divorced things become far from easy. She leaves behind her mom and her friends in New York to live in Woodstock with her dad. Every weekend she rides the Divorce Express, the bus that goes between the two towns. It's on the bus that she meets someone just like her who's living the same chaotic life. Does everything turn out well for Pheobe?? Read the book and find out, you won't be disappointed.AS
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Paula Danziger has outone herself yet again with this heartfelt tale about divorce. Divorce Express is about Phoebe, who's Mum and Dad are divorced. She has to tavel the divorce Express every weekend to go and see her mum. She copes with making friends at a new school and wit her Mum getting married again. You should definitely read it.
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