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The Divorce Express

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The book I read was called The Divorce Express. It's about a girl name Pheobe whose parents didn't start getting along until they got a divorce when she was thirteen. Now that she's fourteen she spends the weekend with her father in woodstock New York ,and commutes on the bus called the ''Divorce Express'' for weekends with her mother in New York city.

It seems to me that joint custody means alot to Phoebe, because her parents are not together. Phoebe hates the fact that she has to deal with all the crisesin both of her parents lives. Phoebe's life improves when she meet a girl name Rosie who becomes her friend. Phoebe meets Rosie in Woodstock where her dad lives. Also her life changes when a boy named Dave that she had a crush on for years while going to visit her dad ask to date her. Just when phoebe thinks she got everything under control ,her mother announces that she's getting married.

Yes, I would recommand this book to other readers, because it's helping others who want to learn about marriage in the future.

This title may seem a little weird for you but I'm going to explain why it's called Divorce-Express-Reading Marathon... Well, when I started reading this book I thought it would be kind of boring, but when I read about Phoebe's story I couldn't stop reading! Instead of taking a week to read this book I took 2 to 3 days, and I was traveling! Imagine if I wasn't... Well, there are a few reasons that made me love this book so much. First of all, I loved the story. It is about a girl named Phoebe that has divorced parents and lives with her father in Woodstock while her mother lives in New York. She makes lots of new friends in Woodstock, and together they organize a protest to improve the cafeteria food of their school. She also has to confront lots of problems during the story, including her mother getting married to another guy... Well, I think I already told too much of the story, and to know the rest you'll just have to read this awesome book!! Enjoy!

I enjoyed The divorce Express very much. When Phoebe's parents got divorced, she was forced to ride a bus which was nick-named the Divorce Express because of all of the children riding to and from their seperated parent's homes. On the bus, Phoebe met a girl named Rosie Wison. The two girls became good friends not only on the Divorce Express, but in school also. After living with her mother, Phoebe moved in with her father, Jim. Jim lived in Woodstock and Phoebe didn't like the idea of moving in with him. Yet after a while of getting used to it, she didn't seem to mind it one bit. She participated when her school decided to take action when they could no longer stand the lunches they were being served in the cafeteria, she made a lot of frineds, and really began to fit in. Rosie helped a lot. Phoebe was also very fond of Rosie's mother Mindy. Jim and Mindy had met several times and also got along very well. Then, just when everything was in her life was going just right, Phoebe's mother announced thar she was going to get married to a man that Phoebe didn't like at all. I have to stop here and not give away the ending. The divorce Express was a very good book. It only took me a week to read it and i just couldn't put it down. I hope you will enjoy this book just as much as I did.

I read this book during the summer and it was one of my favorite books I read that summer. The sequel: It's an Aardvark Eat Turtle World is a great too

I thought this was a really great book. If you're parents are divorced this is a must read for you. It is also very comical and also very sad at times. Enjoy!!!

When I was a teen, I loved reading Paula Danziger's novels; she really knew how to get into the heads of her 13- and 14-year-old protagonists and I could easily relate to them. I first read this book when I was about 15 or 16, and loved it then. I related to Phoebe's dilemma of who to love when parents divorce and her first crush, David, as well as her BFF Rosie.

However, I had the opportunity to re-read this novel at the ripe old (?) age of 38, and am now a divorced mother of two. The novel has lost some of its sparkle, and perhaps that's due to my changed circumstances. Phoebe strikes me as wise beyond her years in this novel and she shows a very level head in situations that would have normal 14-year-olds whining about how unfair life is; however, she throws a tantrum when she discovers that her mother is remarrying.

Danziger might have a low opinion of men: the fathers in her other novels "Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?" and "The Pistachio Prescription" were ornery and nasty at times; but here, Phoebe's father is practically a saint: an eco-warrior who recycles as much as possible, paints, and saves woodland animals from traps. Phoebe's mother is a materialistic shrew, which I felt was a rather unfair characterization. She gets engaged to an insurance executive with kids older than Phoebe, and this obviously disconcerts Phoebe.

The tone of the book is city versus country life, and the hippie-esque Woodstock lifestyle is the clear winner here. She almost made me want to visit New York, but I'll save my money and make a pilgrimmage to Whole Foods Market instead, assuming I'll find the same level of smugness there that she imbues to her Woodstock-living characters.

This book is better than its inferior sequel, "It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World" (in which Phoebe becomes the villain for no apparent reason) but, for me, it's not quite the same.