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    The Frandidate
    The Frandidate
    The Frandidate
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    The Frandidate

    By Jim Benton

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    Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy fans, meet Franny!

    Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist, has always had her eye on world domination, and she has to start somewhere...like her class elections! If people vote for her, they’ll be giving her all the control she wants.

    But Franny’s platform doesn’t have the same appeal as her competitors who are offering new playground equipment, so she creates The Frandidate. Made of DNA samples from a dog, a chameleon and a parrot, along with a scrap of carpet (so she’ll know where people stand), Franny’s special suit helps her say and do exactly what people want! But when The Frandidate starts making promises she knows she can’t keep, Franny realizes she might have gone too far…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    Release dateJun 18, 2013
    ISBN9781416996644
    The Frandidate
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    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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    • 4/5
      one of the best novels
      but very short series
      hive
    • 5/5
      My younger sister recommended this book to me because it is a part of one of her favorite book series, and I really enjoyed reading it. The first reason I liked this book is because of the character development of Franny. Franny is a “mad scientist,” but the author makes sure to inform the reader that she is not the mean or diabolical type because she is just a little girl. Franny always wants to tell the truth, and she never wants to hurt anyone with her inventions, only help people. I like that the author makes this distinction because it doesn’t give students a bad impression or the idea that wanting to take over the world and punish people is okay. The second reason I liked this book is because of the engaging illustrations featured throughout the book. It is a great beginning chapter book because the pictures help the students visualize the text, but it is still a 110 page book with 20 different chapters. The illustrations are detailed for a chapter book, and they feature shading and outlining, which makes them look a little spooky. In addition, a lot of the illustrations are funny, which is always a great aspect in a book. The main idea of this book is that telling the truth is always the right option, and it will make you feel better than lying.

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    The Frandidate - 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.

    Behind this window was Franny’s room, which was also her laboratory—her Mad Scientist Laboratory.

    Franny wasn’t your average mad scientist. Franny wasn’t planning to take over the universe, or galaxy, or even the world.

    Franny thought that maybe she should want to take over the world, being a mad scientist and everything, but it seemed wrong to her somehow.

    It was tempting, of course. If she were in charge, she knew she could use her genius to do all sorts of great things that people wouldn’t let her do now.

    Like, if she added a pinch of kangaroo DNA to human cells, we wouldn’t need cars anymore.

    And if she made everybody’s whole kitchen a microwave oven, they could just set the table, press a button, and everything would cook all at once.

    Or she could go ahead with her plan to just squirt the sunscreen directly on the sun itself, so we wouldn’t have to wipe it on ourselves all the time.

    And if she ever decided to take over the world, she knew nobody would be able to keep her from doing it.

    She could have used her Chimpofier to turn everybody into monkeys that she could easily control with a few bananas.

    Or she could have simply used her Steiny Heiny Ray

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