The Like Potion

by Judith W. Hollands

Doris makes a "like potion" to help her best friend, Beverly, win Jason back from Dina, but Beverly's student teacher drinks it by mistake, and begins smiling at her

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

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Beverly Trapp is eleven years old and feels like she doesn't have much to offer the world. Compared to her pretty and athletic older sister Shari, Beverly feels like a wall flower. To add insult to injury, she was cast as a squash in her school play. She thinks she is destined for a life of boredom and malaise until Jason Baines walks into her life. The summer she met Jason was the best time of her life and she experiences the feeling of love for the first time. With no apparent explanation, something strange and upsetting happens. Jason decides that he is no longer interested in plain old Beverly and directs his attention to beautiful, fun and lovely Dina Kingsley. Beverly conspires with her best friend Doris and they devise a plan to win back Jason's attention. They decide to create a love potion to make Jason fall in love with Beverly. They plan to slip it into his milk at lunchtime but that's when the trouble begins! To their disappointment, Jason doesn't drink the milk. Instead Mr. Pinehurst, the teacher's assistant, uses it as cream for his coffee. After this happens, Beverely and Doris start taking notice of Mr. Pinehurst and feel that they are getting more than their share of attention from him. Is this because of the potion? Did it really work? All of a sudden, things aren't so boring anymore!

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[Justin Fraxi · Rating 3 out of 5]

You know that episode of Beavis & Butthead where they get Spanish Fly from the restroom intending to give it to a girl, but the milk they put it in ends up getting drunk by some jock dude and they spend the rest of the episode all NO HOMO whenever the guy is nearby? This book is like that, but for 11-year-old girls instead.

[Stefanie Foard · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this as a little girl and remember nothing about it except that I liked it...and the main character's name was Beverly Ursula Teresa Trapp, whose initials spelled B.U.T.T. ;) Oh, the useless information your brain retains. Ha!

[Tosha Sisler · Rating 5 out of 5]

My mom got me an autographed copy of this book back in 1989. I still treasure it and the inscription encouraging me to keep writing.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book when I was around 12 years old. I loved it. It was the right balance of romance, comedy, confusion, and anxiety!

[{H=(a)+H=R}-{Sun}-{MaY} · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this when I was a little girl.