By Jim Benton ISBN-13: 978-0-689-86291-5
Franny K. Stein is not your average girl-she's
a mad scientist. She doesn't follow the
stereotypical little girl who plays with dolls.
In fact, she prefers poison ivy to daisies, and
when Franny jumps rope, she uses her pet
snake. The kids in Franny's class think she's
weird, wacky, and just plain creepy. She has a
hard time making friends at school, so she
takes notes on what the other kids do
differently in order to be more like them and
make friends. One day she throws her lunch
in the trash can, but when her lunch is mixed
in with a bunch of chemicals, the concoction
develops into a monster that is more than
anyone can handle!
This funny story is about Franny, a girl
that is learning to adapt to other kids and
their lifestyles. She is very awkward in the
process, of course, as she is a mad scientist.
But the underlying theme of this story is that
it's ok for a girl to be a geek. Tweens will
empathize with the difficulties that Franny
struggles through as she tries to make new
friends, while at the same time discovering
that she is very different from everyone else.
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