If I wasn’t careful, I might miss a sentence. Some of the pages were stuck together, as if the previous reader had done so with a glass of Sharon’s freckle juice in hand. Freckle Juice just appeared one day, as if summoned. My family was weird-my dad, for example, was not really mine-and my baby sister did things like stick beads up her nose and scream all night long. I knew what it was like to be all wrong, even then, at what, five or six or so? I had glasses before any of the other kids on my street.

A peeling white ring distorted poor Andrew Marcus’s face, his fake freckles and buck teeth in the center of the bullseye. The story ends with Sharon trying to sell him her 'secret recipe' for a so-called potion for removing freckles.The cover of Freckle Juice was warped, as if someone-my mother, maybe?-had used it as a coaster. Suddenly, Nicky then asks her for the 'magic freckle remover', claiming that he hates his freckles, but she tells him they did not look right on Andrew, but that he looks wonderful with them. Andrew washes his 'freckles' off and humbly returns to class, where Miss Kelly tells him that he is a very handsome boy without freckles. After recess, Miss Kelly gently sends him to the restroom with her 'secret formula' for removing freckles, which turns out to be a bar of lemon-scented soap. Unfortunately for him, no one is fooled by his drawn-on freckles. Realizing that Sharon had swindled him, Andrew dots his face and neck with a blue magic marker (since he could not find a brown one) to try to show her that the 'freckle juice' had worked. It is nothing more than a nauseating mix of grape juice and assorted condiments that only serves to make Andrew sick enough to miss school the next day. His classmate, Sharon, knowing this, sells him a recipe for a so-called potion called 'freckle juice' for fifty cents, which she claims will allow him to sprout freckles just like Nicky's. But when Andrew got to eighty-six his teacher, Miss Kelly (who caught him eavesdropping on Nicky), asked him if he was paying attention. While Andrew and his classmates were reading, he's eavesdropping on Nicky and tried to count his freckles. So Andrew wants some just so that his mother will never notice when his neck is dirty. Nicky had lots of them on his face (about eighty-six). It is about a second grade student who wants to have freckles.Īndrew Marcus desperately wants to have freckles like his classmate, Nicky Lane, who he sits behind. Freckle Juice ( ISBN 3-0) is a 1971 children's chapter book by Judy Blume with illustrations by Sonia O.

Freckle juice book report