num_pages: 160
description: At the beginning of their first adventure, Ernestine and Amanda agree on one thing: they aren't going to be friends. Ernestine thinks wealthy Amanda is stuck-up. Amanda thinks Ernestine is too fat. But as a year goes by and the lives of these ten-year-old piano students become more and more intertwined, the girls are amazed to discover how much they are beginning to need each other.In the second adventure Ernestine's father has lost his job, Amanda's parents are separating, and neither girl wants to go off to camp. But Ernestine's summer at an Africian-American girl's camp ends up being filled with fun. While Amanda's, at a posh predominantly white camp, forces her to reconsider what it really means to be a friend. "A gentle, sweet, simply told tale of family, community, and friendship.... Will enhance any library's collection". -- School Library Journal
language: English
title: Ernestine & Amanda
titlecomplete: Ernestine & Amanda (Ernestine & Amanda, #1)
genres: Historical Fiction, Childrens
ratings_count: 17
series: Ernestine & Amanda
publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks