Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers is a short novel about a young girl who wakes one Friday morning to find she has been switched from her own body to her mother's. At first it seems fun, like some sort of magic game, a chance to prove to her mother that she can handle adult responsibilities. However, a near tragedy leads her to an understanding that only spending a day in her mother's shoes could bring.

Annabel Andrews wakes quite calmly in her mother, Ellen's bed with her mother's face staring back at her from the mirror. Finding that she is now, somehow, a teenager in an adult body, Annabel decides she is quite up to the challenge, sure that being an adult has to be more fun than being a child, the exact sentiment she yelled at her mother the night before during one of their...