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  “Join me on the dance floor?” I heard Mr. Hudson ask Ms. Pitt. I turned around long enough to see her nod yes. And her smile had a positively un-thirty-two-year-old beam and was a bit more teenage. Success! Mr. Hudson and Ms. Pitt followed us out onto the dance floor.

  So there we were—Mr. Hudson and Ms. Pitt and Zane and myself all slow-dancing under the twinkly lights of Burroughs Junior High cafeteria. It was positively too much, entirely freaky, and completely fabulous.

  “So…how about that kiss, then?” Zane asked softly.

  He smiled down at me, his face blushing and his eyes sparkling with affection.

  Yup. It was pretty much the greatest Monday. Ever.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  The authors would like to send a big bouquet of thanks to the following readers for their terrific responses and insightful comments on the manuscript: Sonya Caputo-Cole; Rachel Martel; Isabel Sebbane; and Gracie Lawrence, Alison Kaplon, Miranda Wilkins, and Kheyana McKie, middle-school students at the Dalton School in New York, as well as their dynamite librarian, Roxanne Hsu Feldman.

  Heather Hach adds: “I have to thank Brenda Bowen, my brilliant editor, for steering this book into its rightful harbor. Also, thank you to Mary Rodgers for extending the opportunity to do this in the first place and to my literary agent, Richard Abate, for seeing it through. A big shout-out is necessary for my adorable and supportive husband, Jason Hearne, who never tires of me sneaking off to the computer for one more peck at the keyboard. I could not do it without him or without my parents, Bruce and Muriel Hach, who are deliriously devoted and have always fostered my creativity—thank you!”

  About the Authors

  MARY RODGERS is the author of FREAKY FRIDAY, a book that has sold more than a million copies, has been made into two movies, and is now considered, quite rightly, a classic. Mary has also written 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. A trustee of the Juilliard School, Mary Rodgers lives and works in New York City.

  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.

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  Credits

  Jacket photo © 2009 by Clay Patrick McBride

  Copyright

  FREAKY MONDAY. Copyright © 2009 by Mary Rodgers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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