Black-and-white drawings (including a section where readers cut pages horizontally to turn them into a create-a-monster game) echo the narrative's hyperbolic humor. But when items the students have thrown into the trash turn out to be the formula for a 'Giant Monstrous Fiend,' Franny reverts to her mad-scientist ways to create a 'Lunch-Meat Creature' that does in the evil monster. Franny's sympathetic teacher (whom Benton drolly names 'Miss Shelly') suggests Franny conduct an 'experiment' to discover how to make friends with her classmates, whereupon the budding mad scientist concocts a potion that transforms her into a sweet-looking girl in a frilly dress and adopts new eating and playing habits to fit in with her peers. The young heroine is clearly not an average child: she fills her room with bats, snakes and a flying piranha-plus test tubes, beakers and 'a whole bunch of crackling electrical gizmos that had made all by herself.' Not surprisingly, the other kids at school keep their distance when they see Franny using a snake for a jump rope (never mind that her favorite doll, Chompolina, sports steel teeth that can bite off the heads of other dolls). Cupid The Invisible Fran The Fran That Time Forgot Frantastic Voyage The Fran with Four Brains The Frandidate Bad Hair Day Recipe for Disaster Mood Science Read more Reading age 6 - 10 years Print length 1184 pages Language English Grade level 1 - 5 Dimensions 5.13 x 3.2 x 7. Stein, Mad Scientist series gets off to a silly start with this copiously and cartoonishly illustrated novel, which bears at least a passing visual resemblance to Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants capers. Lunch Walks Among Us Attack of the 50-Ft. Stein is a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky and creepy, but when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments with fitting in-which works until a monster erupts from the trashcan.

Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.The Franny K. Lunch Walks Among Us Benton, Jim AR Quiz No. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. But has Franny lost her creepy, crawly ways? Now in paperback-the book that introduced a pint-size heroine with enough pluck to face down any challenge-be it making friends, thrashing monsters, or being herself. Tired of being stared at, Franny decides to attempt her most dangerous experiment yet - she' s going to 'fit in.' but when a giant Monstrous Fiend attacks the class, everyone knows it' s up to a 'mad scientist' to save the day.

The kids in Franny' s class think she' s weird, wacky, and just plain creepy. She prefers poison ivy to daisies, and when Franny jumps rope, she uses her pet snake. Stein is not your average girl - she' s a mad scientist.

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