My book review is on Freckle Juice by Judy Blume. The main characters are Andrew, Nicky, and Sharon. The book takes place at Andrew’s house and in his school. Andrew desperately wants to have a lot of freckles like his friend Nicky. Andrew’s classmate, Sharon, sells him a recipe for freckle juice. She tells him that it will make him grow freckles, as many as he wants. But, will it work?

Andrew decided to pay Sharon the fifty cents she asked for to get the recipe for freckle juice. He raced home after school and gathered all the ingredients in the recipe. He made the freckle juice and drank it all quickly – boy was it gross! He ran upstairs to sit in front of the a mirror to look for freckles. Not too long after, he started to feel really sick. When his Mom came home, she took one look at him and said, “Andrew, you’re green. Absolutely green! Are you sick?” Andrew stayed home from school for a couple days. This is important because Andrew realized that Sharon had lied to him. He couldn’t let her get away with it.

When he felt better, he realized that if he went to school, Sharon would see that he didn’t grow freckles. So, Andrew used a blue marker to put dots on his face to look like freckles. At recess, Andrew’s teacher, Miss Kelly, gave him her secret formula to remove freckles. She thought he looked ridiculous because she knew it was just blue marker. Once Andrew used the secret formula to remove his fake freckles, Nicky said, “Could I use your magic freckle remover?” Miss Kelly tried to convince Nicky that he looked wonderful with all his freckles. Sharon overheard and whispered to Nicky that she would sell him her secret recipe for removing freckles for fifty cents. This was important because Sharon was trying to take advantage of another kid just to get fifty cents from him.

Andrew was very jealous of his friend Nicky’s freckles. Even though he didn’t want to pay Sharon anything, he was so desperate to have freckles, he paid her fifty cents for her secret recipe to have freckles like Nicky. Andrew was very gullible. Sharon doesn’t really like Andrew. He let her trick him into giving her fifty cents for freckle juice that was never going to work. Not only did he not get freckles, but it made him really sick. Last, Andrew was a very determined kid. He would do anything to get freckles. When the freckle juice didn’t work, Andrew used a blue marker to draw freckles on his face. His teacher, Miss Kelly, asked him what happened. He said, “I grew freckles, Miss Kelly. That’s what!”

This book was pretty good. One of my favorite parts of the book was when Sharon told Nicky she would give him her secret recipe for removing freckles for fifty cents. I liked that part because I knew that Nicky isn’t gullible and I thought that Sharon might be able to fool him too. Another part of the book that I really liked was when Sharon got Andrew to give her fifty cents for the freckle juice recipe. Andrew and Sharon didn’t like each other, so I was surprised that Andrew was tricked into paying her. Sharon is mean to Andrew, and I would never trust a mean person. I would recommend this book because it’s a nice children’s book and it’s not that long. It’s good to read because it’s a funny story. This book is unique, because I don’t know of any other kind of book that is like this one. I would give this book a 4 star rating.