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A boy and his father literally find themselves in each other's shoes.Tags
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The sequel to (and in my opinion, slightly better than) the more famous Freaky Friday sees Annabel’s younger brother switch with his Dad for summer camp. Ben bounces around Beverly Hills miraculously failing to wreck his dad’s career and marriage despite his enthusiastic efforts which bring him very close. His main insight is about everyone pretending and acting and tussling for status and how people see each other. His Dad decides to actually Try at summer camp, winning nearly everything, but alienating Ben’s best friend in the process. Eventually they manage to swap back, with the warm fuzzy moral that winning at all costs is not actually worth the cost.
A follow up to the original 'Freaky Friday' this time with the son and father switcheroo, but doesn't hold up as well as the original source material.
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Mary Rodgers was born in Manhattan, New York on January 11, 1931. She attended Wellesley College, where she studied music, but she left before graduating to get married. While at Wellesley, she wrote numerous songs. A dozen were published in 1952 under the title Some of My Best Friends Are Children. In 1957, she met composer Leonard Bernstein, who show more hired her to help write and produce the television shows of Bernstein's New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts, a job she held for more than a decade. She wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress, Hot Spot, and the off Broadway revue, The Mad Show. She also wrote a musical for television entitled Feathertop. She wrote children's books including Freaky Friday, A Billion for Boris, The Rotten Book, and Summer Switch. Freaky Friday was adapted into a movie starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster in 1976 and a remake movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in 2003. She died of heart failure on June 26, 2014 at the age 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1982
- People/Characters
- Ben "Ape Face" Andrews; Bill Andrews
- Important places
- Camp Soonawissakit; Los Angeles, California, USA
- Dedication
- For Hank & For Tod
- First words
- I suppose, in a funny sort of way, I owe it all to Camp Soonawissakit, because if I hadn't told Dad I wanted to go there in the first place, I wouldn't have been in the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Departure Day (Thursday, ... (show all)June 30), wishing to God I was somewhere else.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)This morning I got a Mailgram saying
HOW ABOUT SUMMER SWITCH?
I LOVE YOU, TOO. APE FACE.
THE END
THE END
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .R6155 .S — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Catalan, English, French
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- Paper
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- 12
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