We have students write a sentence that uses hyperbole that is of course about – FRECKLES!

Hyperbole is explored and analyzed in chapter one. And, even though this is a novel that will have your students laughing, you can still use this Freckle Juice novel unit to teach Common Core standards! Read on to see our reading focus for some of the chapters and to print FREE handouts from our Freckle Juice novel unit. Everyone is able to relate to Andrew as he wants something he can’t have.

The story ends with Sharon trying to sell him her 'secret recipe' for a so-called potion for removing freckles.Judy Blume’s Freckle Juice is a classic, must read with your students. 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 by Judy Blume