Freckle Juice

After breakfast, Andrew cooks up a plan. He looks for a brown marker but can only find a blue one. As soon as he gets to school, he “[takes] out the magic marker and decorate[s] his whole face and neck with blue dots” (33). When Andrew gets to class, his classmates start giggling until Miss Kelly finally notices. She asks Andrew what he has done to himself, and he declares that “[he] grew freckles” (35). He takes the opportunity to stick his tongue out at Sharon for good measure. Miss Kelly doesn’t question him any further, and Andrew sits in class all day with blue freckles. Finally, at the end of the day, Miss Kelly calls Andrew over to her desk and asks if he wants to “use [her] secret formula for removing freckles” for free (36). She gives Andrew a package and tells him to wash his face with the magic freckle remover in the boys’ room.

When he returns to class without freckles, Miss Kelly tells him that he’s “a very handsome boy without freckles!” (38). Nicky asks if he could please use the magic freckle remover too, because “[he] hate[s] [his] freckles.