Freaky Friday

I am a student at Waldron Mercy Academy (AMD). Annabel is a teenager who is doing awful in school! She just got in a fight with her mother, which is quite bad. Her mom is really smart that she came up with an excellent idea to teach Annabel her lesson. The plan was for Annabel to switch lives with her mother. Annabel has to take care of her annoying little brother, Ben who she calls "Ape Face". He is a big problem. Another bad thing happened to Annabel. She doesn't even know how to work the washer. She got in a fight with the cleaning lady, so fired her. Annabel has to go to a meeting, and can't find Ape Face! She doesn't even know how to cook. Her life is a terrible disaster! Does Annabel switch back to herself? Does she continue to be her mother? Read the rest of Freaky Friday to find out!

Annabel Andrews, at age 13, does not like her mother. She doesn't particularly like her little brother Ben, her annoying upstairs neighbor Boris, or herself, either, but she KNOWS she doesn't like her mother. Imagine her shock one morning when she wakes up in her mother's body. Through an endless day, she must keep house (with uncooperative appliances), do the shopping for two ungrateful kids, ride herd on younger brother Ben, and do all this without ruining her family, her apartment, and without attracting too much attention--especially when she has to attend the sort of parent-teacher conference that she would much rather not hear what is said about her. But at the end of the day, she has a new appreciation for herself, her mother, her brother--and even that annoying kid upstairs! An absolute delight. None of the endless film adaptations that have used this concept have ever been able to capture the magic of this original.

Freaky Friday is about a 13 year old girl who turns into her mother. Its a really good book. I liked it because its funny. Its one of my favorite books and I think you should read it too!

Contrary to a previous review, I do not consider this a book for babies. I first read this book 20 years ago when I was in the 4th grade, and I enjoyed it. The concept of a daughter waking up in her mother's body is intriguing, and funny. I just reread this book last week, and I was on the floor laughing. Rodgers has written a book that works well with all ages, and I found it even funnier this time around. From the crush on Boris Harris, to the funniest parent-teacher conference ever, this book just moves on and on, and never ceases to be amusing. Even more interesting is the little mystery throughout the book of who is inhabiting Annabel's body that day. As a 4th grader, I loved the premise, as an adult, I love the wordplay, and the whole mixed up situation that allows Annabel to see thw world through an adults eyes. My only real gripe with the book at this point has nothing to do with Rodger;s writing, but rather the cover in paperback. We see Annabel looking in the mirror at a rather frumpish looking mother, which, if you read the book, is not at all how the mother really looks (a better idea is to picture Barbara Harris who plays Mom in the movie, and does seem to resemble the physical characteristics as Rodgers describes them.) If I were not such an advocate of book collecting and preservation, I'd advise you to rip off the cover, but my best advice to you here is to just ignore it. Otherwise, have a great time with this book.

This book was very funny. The woman who wrote it also wrote the script for the Disney movie version of it. They aren't exactly the same though. Still, I think each one is great in its own way. It's a very humurous book and good to have in any collection! Get it now!!!