Happy Birthday, Dear Amy

by Marilyn Kaye

Book Overview

It's a day like no other! Amy's birthday is coming up. She's turning 13. Now she'll be an official teenager -- and she wants to celebrate with a real blow-out. But on the big day, Amy wakes up and is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553487442
• ISBN13: 9780553487442
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Skylark Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Amy is finally 13!

In the 16th Replica book Amy turns 13! But when she wakes up int he morning she looks around 28! No one knows what to do. Amy eventually runs away and stays at this place run by a nice couple...its kind of like a bording house for runaways or homeless kids. It was a good story but i thought it ended too soon. We were just getting to know the runaways and other characters when it all of a sudden just ends aburptly. But it was still really good! A must for any Replica fan.

*^*^*Yikes!*^*^*

What would you feel like if you woke up one morning to find that you'd turned into an adult? Amy Candler knows what it's like. She wakes up on her thirteenth birthday - the day she'd been looking forward to for so long - only to look in the mirror and see the face of a twenty-five-year-old woman. Her mother get extremely upset, and she drives Amy into a hospital, where Amy is forced to lay there while people ran tests on her. Amy gets so frustrated that she runs away to a private shelter called Sanctuary, where she helps take care of the homeless kids living there. For a while, Amy feels like she should just stay at Sanctuary. But one event is all it takes for her to change her mind...!

Sometimes you just get carried away.

Amy, Number Seven, is now an official teenager. But, on the morning of her birthday, she wakes up and finds out that she has matured quite a bit. The only problem is that she's matured more than she wanted to, and now looks like she's in her early twenties. So her mom takes her to a hospital, but after a few days there, with no results, she runs away. Amy finds a shelter for abused children and gets a job there. The first few days are fine, Brother James and Sister Karen, the couple who own the shelter, really care about the kids and want to help, but after the appearance of a young girl who was illegally smuggled into the U.S. everything starts to go wrong. The government wants to give the girl to her family but Brother James insists that she stays with the shelter. Can Amy find a way to solve this problem before Brother James does something drastic? Happy Birthday, Dear Amy was a great book. I recommend it to all Replica fans.

A good read, but it could have been better though

I love the replica books. This one was not the best of them, but it was still pretty good. This book was worth buying, but I think Kaye should have thought up a better ening-we all know that she is capable of it. But all in all, this is a good book.

Amy's turned thirteen - and she has some real growing pains!

In just a few days, Amy Candler will be turning thirteen, and she's psyched. She's planned a huge party on the beach, and she can't wait for the day when she wakes up and will finally be a teenager. But the surprise that awaits Amy on her thirteenth birthday is anything but pleasant. Because overnight Amy has gone from twelve to twenty-five! Her mother's friend Dr. Dave, who also worked on Project Crescent, finds nothing wrong with her - but he insists that she stay in a hospital until he can reverse her overnight aging. But after a couple of days in the hospital, Amy is bored, so like the teenager she is inside, she acts impulsively - and runs away. Soon, she becomes involved with a shelter for runaways and a lost little girl that becomes the center of an international incident. And not only that, but she wonders if the "organization" may be after her once again. Will Amy EVER be herself again - or has she missed out on her teenage years for good? Read to find out. I reccomend this book to all Replica fans.