She quietly gives him a secret formula for removing freckles – for free! Andrew finds a bar of soap and instructions wrapped neatly in the secret box. Soon, his kind teacher lets him in on her little secret. He comes up with a plan: he’ll simply draw the freckles on! His classmates get a kick out of his blue magic markers freckles, but Andrew doesn’t care. There was no way Andrew was going to let Sharon get away with tricking him. At first she is concerned, but after seeing the mess of ingredients in the kitchen, she sends Andrew to bed. Marcus comes home, Andrew is in rough shape. Soon, Andrew is feeling strange, but more of a sick strange than a freckle strange. Andrew mixes up the recipe, using some substitute ingredients, ignores the foul smell, and gulps it down. Luckily (or unluckily) for Andrew, she returns it to him at the end of the school day.Īndrew can’t contain his excitement, and runs home from school to mix the recipe.

After paying up, Sharon throws the recipe across the classroom, and Andrew falls on the floor trying to grab it.

Things don’t go smoothly during the recipe exchange. Although Andrew would rather not pay Sharon for anything, he can’t stop thinking about it. That is, until his obnoxious classmate Sharon lets Andrew in on her secret: the recipe for 'freckle juice' has been in her family for years. The only problem is, freckles seem impossible to get. Kelly either, because he wouldn’t be so distracted by Nicky’s freckles.

One day Andrew counted 86 of them! If only Andrew could find out how to get them, he wouldn’t have to wash his neck and he’d never be late for school! He probably wouldn’t get in as much trouble with Ms. His classmate Nicky Lane has the perfect set of freckles. Second grader Andrew Marcus wants freckles more than anything in the world. What does it mean to accept who you are?.What is something that makes you unique?.What would it be like if everyone was the same?.Have you ever wished you could be like someone else? Why did you feel that way?.

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