Judy BlumeChildren's Books · Fiction·b. 1938
Freckle Juice
Synopsis
A second-grader named Andrew is desperate for a few freckles like his classmate Nicky, so he buys a concoction called "freckle juice" from another girl in class. After drinking the foul-tasting mixture and waking up with an upset stomach, he realizes it was just grape juice mixed with other condiments — but still tries to convince everyone at school that it worked by drawing freckles on his face with a marker.
How it reads
Prose complexity 1/10