Freaky Monday - Hardcover

Rodgers, Mary; Hach, Heather

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255 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061664782 ISBN 13: 9780061664786

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2009

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Hadley is pretty much the model student: straight As, perfect attendance, front row in class. So what if she's overstressed and overscheduled: She's got school covered. (Life—not so much.)

Ms. Pitt is the kind of teacher who wants you to call her by her first name and puts all the chairs in a circle and tells her students to feel their book reports.

Hadley wishes Ms. Pitt would stick to her lesson plan. Ms. Pitt wishes Hadley would lighten up.

So when Hadley and Ms. Pitt find themselves switched into each other's bodies, the first thing they want to do is switch right back. It takes a family crisis, a baffled principal, and a (double) first kiss to help them figure out that change can be pretty enlightening.

Even if it is a little freaky!

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About the Author:

Mary Rodgers was an accomplished author, screenwriter, and composer. She authored Freaky Friday, a book that has sold more than a million copies and has been made into two movies. Mary was the creator of two other novels for young readers, Summer Switch and A Billion for Boris, as well as the music for the musical Once Upon a Mattress. Mary Rodgers lived in New York City until her death in 2014.

Heather Hach (rhymes with Bach) wrote the screenplay for the most recent Freaky Friday movie and the book for Legally Blonde: The Musical. Heather recently appeared as a judge on MTV's The Search for Elle Woods. Heather Hach writes books and screenplays in West Hollywood, California, where she lives with her husband, an animator, and her daughter, a toddler.

From Booklist:

“You never really understand a person until . . . you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” After uttering this line from To Kill a Mockingbird, 13-year-old Hadley finds her body mysteriously switched with her earthy English teacher, Ms. Pitt, and their daylong adventure produces predictably awkward situations and enlightening revelations for both. While not as original as in 1972, when Rodgers’ Freaky Friday was published, the body-switching premise is still a funny fantasy that offers instructive insight into seeing the world from another’s perspective. Unfortunately, Hadley’s voice lacks eighth-grade authenticity, and its frantic pacing, quick-dating cultural references, and language that seems to aim for cool, and miss, further detract from the story. Readers will likely forgive all when Hadley and Ms. Pitt, who had both used school to escape the world, successfully broaden their horizons and land their dream boy and dream job respectively, just in time for Tuesday. Grades 4-7. --Andrew Medlar

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