Freckle Juice

As a kid, one of my favorite first chapter books was Freckle Juice by the famous Judy Blume. This non-fiction book has a feeling of reality to it because of what he goes through to have the freckles. It's funny, entertaining and brings a lot of kids to enjoy it because of what he think's he can do to make himself have freckles. Kids always try to fit in and so this book gives a way that little Andrew wanted to because of his friend Nick having freckles and he didn't.

A fun activity you can do with the kids are to come up with a list of things they can put into their own "Freckle Juice" and then bring in supplies to make their own juice. With obvious control of the ingredients, and to not allow them to drink it after because of the things inside, but to just see what it will look like.

I'd definitely bring this into a classroom in the elementary school age. It's a good chapter book they can read and enjoy, and maybe even relate to.