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    The Fran That Time Forgot
    The Fran That Time Forgot
    The Fran That Time Forgot
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    The Fran That Time Forgot

    By Jim Benton

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

    Franny K. Stein didn’t think the time would ever come when someone would realize what the K in her name stood for. And she REALLY didn’t think that same someone would say her middle name in front of the whole school! But that’s what happened at the Science Fair award ceremony, and all the kids and teachers burst out laughing. So Franny does what any respectable mad scientist would do—she goes back in time to change her name.

    However, things don’t turn out quite as she calculated, and Franny ends up having to face her teenage self in a warped, fourth-dimensional, kid-versus-teen, good-versus-evil, Franny-versus-Franny battle of the minds!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    Release dateMay 28, 2013
    ISBN9781442495197
    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 That Time Forgot - 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.

    That tiny round window looked in on the bedroom and laboratory of Franny K. Stein, Little Girl Mad Scientist.

    Recently, in this very lab, Franny had created Zero Gravity Dog Food, to make walking her dog, Igor, more fun.

    And before that, she had invented Cannibalistic Broccoli that ate itself, so kids who hated eating vegetables would never have to.

    And she still had a giant, hamster-powered trike, which she had created when she was only three years old.

    She had been a mad scientist since she was just a baby. And Franny had been building and accumulating her creations in this lab as long as she could remember.

    And she was very, very serious about it. She always had been.

    CHAPTER TWO

    FRANNY’S FAMILY

    The rest of Franny’s family was not really interested in mad science.

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