Freckle Juice
by Judy Blume
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This is a chapter book that really uses alot of great description. It also uses dialogue. This would be a good book for 3rd-4th grade. I like this book because it deals with a child that wants to change the way he looks...he wants freckles like another child in his class. A girl in his class says that she has a secret recipe that will give him freckles, but he will have to pay her 50 cents. This is a really funny book that children will enjoy. After reading this book you can talk about how...more
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Read in June, 2008
Andrew is in the second grade and wants freckles more than anything else in the world. If he had freckles like Nicky then his mother wouldn't be able to tell that he hadn't washed. Plus, freckles are just so cool. His classmate, Sharon, picks up on his desire and offers to sell him her family's secret recipe for freckles--for fifty cents (five whole weeks allowance!). Andrew really wants freckles, though, so he pays up. In the end, it might not be what he wanted after all.
Blume's chapter boo...more
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We listened to this on CD on the way down to Norman, OK to visit the cousins. I checked it out from the library. It helped the trip go by even though MR. Positive Matthew had read the book last year and said he was not going to listen to it. As you would guess, when you are in a compact car, you have no choice to listen, esp. when you are faking like you're asleep!
It was a good choice for the road.
It was a good choice for the road.
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This book is really funny because this kid is in a classroom with all these kids that have a little or a lot of freckles and he dosen't have any. So that very day he makes this juice that he calls freckle juice but he dosen't know that it turned out blue.then the next morning he puts it on and people laugh at him because he had on fake blue freckles.
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One of my all time favorite books as a child. I can't remember how many times I read it, but I remember always enjoying it. I was tempted more than once to make that fearful concoction! Amazingly enough, this is one of a very few books to have survived the great flood.
I can't wait to share it with my kids!
I can't wait to share it with my kids!
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For some reason, I always wanted freckles as a kid. I thought they were so cute, and I secretly coveted the freckles my friend would get in the summer time...alas, nary a speck ever showed up on my little nose. *Sigh* As a result, I could relate to this book, though I never tried the methods he uses.
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I read this at Emerson Elementary. (One of the few vivid memories I have about school.) I learned of the greatnes behind mixing. We made the freckle juice in class and it smelled AWFUL yet every kid in my class, including myself, drank some. Good times. One of the first chapter books I read in English.
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Read in January, 1985
This actually creeped me out a little when I was a kid for some reason--maybe it was just the concept of a little kid who REALLY wanted someone else's freckles. ::shrug:: I liked the quirkiness of the plot, and I liked that the children really acted kooky like some children do.
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Read in October, 2007
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In this book 'FRECKLE juice' i LEARNED THAT ANDREW WANTED TO HAVE FRECKLES JUST LIKE NICKY AND SHARON. SHARON TOLD HIM SHE KNEW HOW TO MAKE FRECKLES GROW. SHE LIED TO HIM. HE MADE UP THE RECEPI AND WHEN HE FINISH DOING IN IT HE WAS FELLING LIKE ABOUT TO TROW UP.
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One of my favorite books as I child, and now, it's so funny and realistic, the fight between boys and girls, but it's depressing how even young people aren't satisfied with the skin they're in... :( I think this was my first chapter book, ^_^
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Read in September, 2007
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Kids and parents and teachers
I read this when I was younger, and my second graders are reading it now . . . I think most of my reading lately is kids books.
It's a humorous story, with words that seem to be missing from the vocabulary in current kids books. :)
It's a humorous story, with words that seem to be missing from the vocabulary in current kids books. :)
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this book is fun to teach to korean children because they absolutely do not understand the concepts of having freckles, wanting freckles, or Andrew's aversion to bathing. amazingly, they still enjoy the book, and i enjoy teaching it.
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Read in January, 1982
I remember that I mostly liked this book because my mom said if I read the whole thing then I could get the other (much longer) book that I really wanted. I read this one, got the other book, and now I only remember this one.
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Plagued by a smattering of freckles myself I had a brief moment of hope. But, alas, it was not to be as "WARNING!" his freckles didn't disappear. Shucks and darn! Anyway, this is a good first chapter book for emerging readers.
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This was probably my least favorite of the Judy Blume books I read when I was younger. Looking back on it I see the message as "like yourself and don't worry about what anyone else says" is definitely a postive one for kids.
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Read in January, 2008
Jadyn and I read this book for her book report. It was really funny. I remember reading this a long time ago but it was fun to read it with her. Her teacher had some fun questions that went along with the book. It was fun.
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Read in January, 1985
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Kids
I remember very vividly reading this book in elementary school. It hit very close to home, I'm a red headed freckled freak and I actually tried to convince my mom to let me make the recipe. Great classic childhood read.
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I remember that I hated one character in this book. I was surpised that I actutally hate a character at my age. I was younger, maybe 8 years old?? Btw, that character who I hate is girl who fooled that poor boy.
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Read in January, 1988
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Young readers
God Bless this website--I'd forgotten all about Frecklejuice! I must have read it 3 or 4 times in elementary school. It is super funny and would be good to read to kids. Good times!
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Read in January, 1985
My grandmother bought me this because I had freckles when I was a kid. Then she used to make me rub lemon juice on them so that they'd fade. She was sending mixed messages.
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