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Lunch Walks Among Us (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist #1)
by
Jim Benton
Franny K. Stein is not your average girl -- she's a mad scientist. 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. 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...more
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
August 10th 2004
by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
(first published 2003)
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Jul 01, 2008
Jes Pedroza
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anyone up for some fun and laughter.
Michigan native, Jim Benton, taps into the strange and exciting world of Franny K. Stein - my new favorite caricature! Franny is not your average girl and kicks a bit of spunk into everything she does. Instead of having a cute kitten for a pet, Franny has bats. While her neighbors play video games, Franny is up in her room doing wild science experiments. And while children eat their wonder bread P&Js at the lunch table, Franny prefers shish-kebabs and ravioli in pumpkin sauce. She fears not...more
Franny K. Stein Mad Scientist – Lunch Walks Among Us (2003) is a part of a series written by Jim Benton about a young girl who is a mad scientist, but her classmates and even her parents do not understand her. Because Franny’s outside appearance is different and dark, many judge her and do not think she fits in with them. In this story, Franny creates a potion, which will allow her to fit in at school; however, when a monster kidnaps their teacher, her classmates follow Franny in order to get th...more
Franny is a young mad scientist who is trying to fit in at school. She truly loves bats and things that destroy but wants friends too. Luckily she has a supportive teacher who encourages her to try an experiment to learn how to be friends with her classmates. She loves experiments so she goes full force into learning about the habits of her classmates and tries to adapt. Unfortunately, the teacher is grabbed by the Pumkin-Crab monster who formed from a thrown out lunch, shoes, garbage and unstab...more
Grades 1-4
Short chapters and plentiful pictures of the slightly demented-looking Franny K. Stein will engage readers just venturing into chapter books, while the humor and child-centered story will continue to engage readers at higher levels.
With no more than a half page of text on any given page and very short chapters (6 or fewer pages), readers should move quickly through the book, and Franny’s vivid expressions will provide clues if the text proves too difficult.
The vocabulary and sentence...more
Short chapters and plentiful pictures of the slightly demented-looking Franny K. Stein will engage readers just venturing into chapter books, while the humor and child-centered story will continue to engage readers at higher levels.
With no more than a half page of text on any given page and very short chapters (6 or fewer pages), readers should move quickly through the book, and Franny’s vivid expressions will provide clues if the text proves too difficult.
The vocabulary and sentence...more
See 'Franny Go From Fiendish To Fabulous And Back AGAIN'!!!
Franny K. Stein is not your average girl. She prefers poison ivy to daisies, piranha to goldfish, and when Franny jumps rope, she uses her pet snake. This makes it almost impossible for Franny to make friends. But Franny's a scientist. And inspired by her favourite teacher, she undertakes one of the most difficult and dangerous experiments ever conceived. It's called "trying to fit in."
Franny's experiment seems to be a tremendous succe...more
Franny K. Stein is not your average girl. She prefers poison ivy to daisies, piranha to goldfish, and when Franny jumps rope, she uses her pet snake. This makes it almost impossible for Franny to make friends. But Franny's a scientist. And inspired by her favourite teacher, she undertakes one of the most difficult and dangerous experiments ever conceived. It's called "trying to fit in."
Franny's experiment seems to be a tremendous succe...more
My daughter and I read this together. She's 9 and has a bit of "Mad Scientist" in her as well. She and I love Franny and all her adventures. In this introductory story, which we somehow skipped, Franny moves to a new town and starts a new school. She is, of course, different from everyone else and decides that she needs to make a few changes to be liked after gathering data and creating data charts (she's mad, not dumb after all). Of course, her new teacher Miss Shelley (Mary Shelley wrote Frank...more
Franny lives in a pink house, in a normal neighbourhood, with a normal family. The catch? She's a mad scientist. She loves bats, the dark, and everything that is creepy. Her first day at her new school starts off on the wrong foot. She looks weird, she eats weird things and the other kids think she's just plain weird. She loves her teacher, though. She begins to conduct an experiment, "How to make the other kids like me". Franny soon discovers that normal dolls don't have razor sharp teeth, that...more
As a third grade teacher it is difficult to find a good beginning chapter book for my students. Although this book could be used as early as second grade, the reality is that my classroom has a handful of struggling readers. My children love this book because it is dark, funny, gross, and silly. It has all the ingredients that kids like.
This book is a book about a little girl named "Franny K. Stein" sounds like "Frankestien" and she is a mad scienctist. Although her parents are picture book, Fr...more
This book is a book about a little girl named "Franny K. Stein" sounds like "Frankestien" and she is a mad scienctist. Although her parents are picture book, Fr...more
I really enjoyed this book. SUPER fun photos and story. Easy for the kids to relate too with a good moral, yet funny also. I personally loved reading this one. I loved how she had a pet bat, looked evil, and her dolls, and of course the cool skulls. It was like she was a cute, smart, little, eccentric goth girl minus the negative connotations associated with being goth. She was just HERSELF and she rocked!
I would love to read more from this author. I also liked the way the chapters were broken...more
I would love to read more from this author. I also liked the way the chapters were broken...more
Papa: So you finished your first chapter book my lovely seven year old reading star. What did you think?
Brontë: I loved it. I think that goes without saying.
Papa: I guess we should stop then.
Brontë: Okay.
Papa: Seriously? You have nothing to say?
Brontë: Yes, I do.
Papa: Serve it up, then ...
Brontë: Well, I really just liked how she made a monster out of lunch meat. And she sewed him up in one day, it's crazy. He's huge. And Mom made a Dobby doll for me and it took her two months, so I don't know...more
Brontë: I loved it. I think that goes without saying.
Papa: I guess we should stop then.
Brontë: Okay.
Papa: Seriously? You have nothing to say?
Brontë: Yes, I do.
Papa: Serve it up, then ...
Brontë: Well, I really just liked how she made a monster out of lunch meat. And she sewed him up in one day, it's crazy. He's huge. And Mom made a Dobby doll for me and it took her two months, so I don't know...more
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Brontë, my lovely seven year old, is a kooky girl.
From the time she was wee, she's been a talented artist, and her greatest influence, then and now, was Tim Burton. One of her greatest pictures, "The Dark Queen" will someday be a tattoo on my left thigh.
But that's not all ,,, Brontë loves Zombies (they scare the shit out of her, btu she loves them. in fact, putting on The Walking Dead, no matter when I put it on, is the flame that draws my little moth into the room. She can be asleep, and she'l...more
From the time she was wee, she's been a talented artist, and her greatest influence, then and now, was Tim Burton. One of her greatest pictures, "The Dark Queen" will someday be a tattoo on my left thigh.
But that's not all ,,, Brontë loves Zombies (they scare the shit out of her, btu she loves them. in fact, putting on The Walking Dead, no matter when I put it on, is the flame that draws my little moth into the room. She can be asleep, and she'l...more
What a fun discovery! Franny K. Stein is a little different from many of the girls around her who like pretty Barbie dolls and pink frilly things and PB&J sandwiches on fluffy white bread. She's a "mad" scientist who likes tarantulas and bats (the flying kind), dolls that ooze yucky gunk, and doing explosive science experiments. Mr. Benton's young female protagonist is a quirky, intelligent problem-solver who learns to be comfortable in her own skin, but also learns that friends can help eac...more
This funny transitional chapter book would be a great choice for fans of Captain Underpants (especially remember this series for kids whose parents forbid Capt. U). It has the same sense of humor that Capt. U has, but toned down a bit. This is also a great choice for kids who don't like sci-fi but are required to read a sci-fi book. It's light sci-fi and mostly a story about a girl who's a little different (okay, a lot different) from the other kids in her class.
I was visiting my niece and she was reading the Dear Dumb Diary series (also by Jim Benton) and I asked her if she'd read his Franny K. Stein series. She hadn't, and I realized neither had I! So I decided to fix that error. This is a very funny little book with awesome illustrations. It is for a younger reader than my niece, but it should be appealing to both boys and girls. Now I understand why this series never stayed on the shelf at Westridge!
This book was alright to me. I only read this book because i didnt have my book in advisory. Anyways, i didnt like this book that much because it seemed too kidish, if thats a word. i also didnt like it because Franky was too fake, think about it, how can a girl be a scientist? it was alright to me in the part where she saves people because it seems the most realistic since the entire book it was fake, and saving others seems more heroic and entertaining.
Franny is a mad scientist. When other kids are playing baseball, Franny prefers to play with a different kind of bat. She really wants to fit in, but all the kids think she's wierd. Franny decides to transform herself so she can be like everyone else, but when something happens in the classroom, she finds out that it's OK to be who you are. In fact, it might help save the world from destruction.
Clever, humorous, and a great lesson for kids. I give this an A+!
Clever, humorous, and a great lesson for kids. I give this an A+!
This was a fun, easy read that was interesting enough to keep my three year olds attention as well as my six year olds. Franny K Stein is not a pink princess of a girl. She's a mad scientist. She is trying to fit in at a new school by changing herself to make the other kids like her, but finds she must be herself. By embracing herself in all her mad scientist glory Franny saves the day and makes friends who appreciate her unique qualities.
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Lunch Walks Among Us this is a book by Jim Benton.It is about a young girl who just does not seem to fit in.she is very different from other girls her age.She into the hole mad scientist thing.Her name is Franny K. Stein
Her mother always wanted her little girl to be like other girls.So she try so many things like she redecorated Frannys room she put pictuers of ponys,flowers,and kittens.
Franny was starting a new school she didnt have any friends.That really made franny sad.Than one day Franny...more
Her mother always wanted her little girl to be like other girls.So she try so many things like she redecorated Frannys room she put pictuers of ponys,flowers,and kittens.
Franny was starting a new school she didnt have any friends.That really made franny sad.Than one day Franny...more
This book is about a girl named Franny K. Stein who is a mad scientist. Her dog,Igor is her lab assistant. One day she wanted to make friends beucase all her classmates thought she was wierd only becuase she was a mad scientist. So she decided to make some toys,so her classmates would play with her. She even decides to have a whole new look, she is also going to bring normal food like all her classmates! Here is a quote....."Franny," her mother said,"you look so....nice." Franny did look nice....more
franny k. stein does not fit in with her classmates, which is what you'd expect when you are a seven year old mad scientist. but when her best efforts to transform herself into a "normal" girl don't pan out, she discovers that it's best to be herself.
cute and quick. initially i was weirded out by how dark franny was, but it ended up being harmless. and any book that promotes kids to be always be themselves is just fine by me.
cute and quick. initially i was weirded out by how dark franny was, but it ended up being harmless. and any book that promotes kids to be always be themselves is just fine by me.
i really like these "Franny" books because I love all the cool inventions that Franny makes in the books. In this one I really liked how Franny pretended to be a kid that everyone loved and wanted to play with, but then she learned that you shouldn't try to become someone else just so that people will like you. I love you, Franny! Thank you, Jim Benton! Read this book,kids!It's amazing! I highly recommend this book to kids who love fun, creative stories with fun, creative characters in it!
It's about a girl named Franny (and K for Kreepy) Stein. She really likes scary things.
Really deep in the book, there's a part where one person says, "We need a fireman," another says, "We need a superhero," another person says, "We need dry pants." Then Franny says, "What we need is a mad scientist!" and stops being an adorable little girl and becomes a mad scientist again.
Really deep in the book, there's a part where one person says, "We need a fireman," another says, "We need a superhero," another person says, "We need dry pants." Then Franny says, "What we need is a mad scientist!" and stops being an adorable little girl and becomes a mad scientist again.
I chose this book because of the title and the cover.This story is about a girl named Franny K. Stein and she is a mad scientist.The problem with Franny is that she doesn't have any friends and her mother and teachers feel bad for her.I would recommend this book to someone who loves science because this is filled with many experiments and also i i said before she is a mad scientist.
Reading these aloud for the second time with my second son, who thinks they are hysterical, especially Franny's doll, Oozette. Imaginative, funny, with just the right amount of gross-out factor, these books are really perfect for the 6-9 year old crowd, whose funny bones are tickled in very specific ways. Good messages for kids about being oneself, never heavy-handed.
Franny is just like me. There is one thing my friends and I have different taste in. They're all on one side while I am on my own. Even though I haven't found someone with my taste, I still continue to go on with my taste just like Franny. Lastly, I will not tell you what that one thing is, even if you beg, cry, or tear.
The title alone is reason enough to read this book. Mad girl scientist has trouble making friends, she tries had to fit in, but it does not work. Then..... let's just say if it wasn't for Franny being a mad scientist her school would not be the same. Very funny, great drawings, very positive for young girls.
Franny K. Stein lunch walks among by : Jim Benton . What I like about the book was that Franny was weird, she wasn’t normal . Also that she was super smart even thou she is a little girl . Also that it has this cool monster making thing in the middle of the book .
What I dislike about the book was how her friends treated her in the beginning of the book . Also how she commanded her friends , I guess she had to . Also how Franny was just trying to make friends but the students wouldn’t give her a...more
What I dislike about the book was how her friends treated her in the beginning of the book . Also how she commanded her friends , I guess she had to . Also how Franny was just trying to make friends but the students wouldn’t give her a...more
Ro picked this one out because he liked the pictures. Franny is a mad scientist little girl. She's a little twisted but that's okay. This one reminded me of Dexter's Laboratory. If the kids want more, I think we'll do more. The pictures kept the youngest happy, the story kept the older two happy.
This was a very good book. When you want to make friends with someone it doesn't mean that you have to dress up nice to have friends.Just be yourself.My favorite part was when franny saved her teacher. I like when franny tranforms into a pretty girl and when franny makes a meat monster. Franny always saves the day!
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Benton began his career in a custom design t-shirt shop where he started designing his own characters. At the same time, Jim did illustrations and artwork for magazines and newspapers. People magazine named him "the most visible cartoonist in America" .
Benton also created greeting cards and worked in the magazine and publishing industry. In 1998, his SpyDogs characters became an animated series, T...more
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Benton also created greeting cards and worked in the magazine and publishing industry. In 1998, his SpyDogs characters became an animated series, T...more
