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Freaky Friday

Mary Rodgers

First published 1972
Type Novel
Series Andrews Family #1

Synopsis

<ul><li> "It's a day of revelations for Annabel, who wakes up to find she is her mother." --listing in "Harper Junior Books" <i>NY Times</i> 1972-05-07 pBRA9 (publisher's Spring list, evidently) <li> Annabel Andrews, age 13, and her mother spend a day in each other's bodies, or "switch bodies". <li> This may "be considered a modern retelling of <a href="/story/19869/"><i>Vice Versa</i></a>, the 1882 novel by F. Anstey, in which the protagonists are a father and son." --Wikipedia Yet this must be a lesson to daughters, not mothers, evidently in contrast to <i>Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers</i>. </ul>

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Publications (12)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1972 Freaky Friday Harper & Row Novel
1973 Freaky Friday Harper Trophy Novel
October 1973 Freaky Friday Hamish Hamilton Novel
January 1976 Freaky Friday Puffin Novel
1977 Freaky Friday Scholastic Novel
1977 Freaky Friday Scholastic Book Services Novel 1
February 1977 Freaky Friday Perennial Library / Harper & Row Novel
1993 Freaky Friday HarperCollins Novel
August 1995 The Mary Rodgers Treasury: Three Mind-Boggling Novels Barnes & Noble Books Omnibus
December 2003 Freaky Friday Puffin Novel
2004 Freaky Friday Scholastic Novel
May 2025 Freaky Friday HarperCollins Novel