Freckle Juice by Judy Blume Date of Publication: 1978 ISBN: 978-0440428138 Number of Pages: 48

REQUIRED READING ABILITY: Junior: Average
GENRES: Realism
THEMES : Appearance versus Reality

SUMMARY:
Andrew is heartily impressed with freckles. He looks at them on the neck of the kid in front of him each day in school, and they seem like a perfect way to get out of washing your neck. The way he sees it, if he had freckles, his mother would never be able to tell if he’d washed or not. This results in “the plan.”

Andrew decides to create some “Freckle Juice” in order to give himself freckles…and that’s where the fun begins…

WHO WOULD LOVE THIS BOOK? A kid who...
- loves Judy Blume
- enjoys humourous stories
- is living with sibling rivalry
- has an embarrassing younger brother or sister
- likes stories told in humourous anecdote form

WHAT ELSE?
Judy Blume has written a great many novels in her lifetime.

RELATED LINKS:
For more information about the author, check out www.judyblume.com, and for teaching resources on this and other Blume books, consider www.webenglishteacher.com/blume.html , www.teachnet-lab.org/miami/2004/vazquez/index.htm
or www.edhelper.com/books/Freckle_Juice.htm