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The Fran with Four Brains
By Jim Benton
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Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy fans, meet Franny!
Being a mad scientist in the modern world is very hard work. With so much that needs to be done in such a short period of time, multitasking can become overwhelming. Franny needs some additional help.
But for Franny there is only one person in the world she trusts to help her with her experiments: herself. So she acquires assistance the mad-scientist way…by building a few real, live, steel-plated Franbots!
Being a mad scientist in the modern world is very hard work. With so much that needs to be done in such a short period of time, multitasking can become overwhelming. Franny needs some additional help.
But for Franny there is only one person in the world she trusts to help her with her experiments: herself. So she acquires assistance the mad-scientist way…by building a few real, live, steel-plated Franbots!
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 18, 2013
ISBN9781442495210
Author
Jim Benton
Jim Benton is a New York Times bestselling author and the creator of many licensed properties, including It's Happy Bunny. He's created a kids' TV series, designed clothing, and written the bestselling series Dear Dumb Diary, as well as Catwad and Franny K. Stein. Jim lives in Detroit with his spectacular family.
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The Fran with Four Brains - Jim Benton
CHAPTER ONE
FRANNY’S HOUSE
The Stein family lived in the pretty pink house with lovely purple shutters down at the end of Daffodil Street. Everything about the house was bright and cheery. Everything, that is, except the upstairs bedroom with the tiny round window.
The window looked in on a bedroom, where one of the busiest mad scientists on earth was working away to keep all of her projects and experiments on schedule.
She had a colony of bearded slugs that needed to be shaved each morning. She had a giant centipede that needed help with her shoes every day. She had her own breed of soy plant that had to be milked daily.
Franny’s lab projects were a lot of work, but Franny truly loved mad science, so she never minded putting in the time.
CHAPTER TWO
FRANNY’S SCHOOL
Franny also liked school. Her teacher, Miss Shelly, was great, and she always kept the kids busy with lots of challenging projects.
Already that year, they had spent time studying dinosaurs, poetry, and even ancient Egypt, which Franny really enjoyed . . . even though her extra-credit project ate a custodian.
Miss Shelly later made Franny unzip the mummy and release the custodian unharmed, although Franny protested and said that everybody knows mummies eat people every once in a while and that custodians should know better than to get too close.
Great teachers like Miss Shelly always
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