Second Graders....Here is a book that you will enjoy!        Freckle Juice by Judy Blume  
      Nicky has freckles--they cover his face, his ears, and the whole back of his neck.  Once, sitting behind him in school, Andrew counted eighty-six of them, and that was just a start!  If Andrew had freckles like Nicky, his mother would never know his neck was dirty.
     Andrew works up enough courage to ask Nicky where he got his freckles.  And, as luck would have it, who should hear him but giggling, teasing, Sharon.  She offers Andrew her secret freckle juice recipe--for fifty cents.  That's a lot of money, but Andrew is desperate.  At home he carefully mixes the strange combination of ingredients.  Then the unexpected happens...
 
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