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Books in Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist series

  • The Complete Franny K. Stein: Mad Scientist- Lunch Walks Among Us- Attack of the 50 Ft. Cupid- Invisible Fran- the Fran That Time Forgot- The Fran With Four Brains- Frantastic Voyage- The Frandidate

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Oct. 23, 2012)
    Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy fans, meet Franny! A boxed set of the first seven books in the Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist series!Follow Franny K. Stein, mad scientist, on all her adventures (and misadventures) as she plots to take over the world! This boxed set includes paperback editions of every book in the series: Lunch Walks Among Us, Attack of the 50 ft. Cupid, Invisible Fran, The Fran that Time Forgot, The Fran with Four Brains, Frantastic Voyage, and The Frandidate. With experiments and inventions ranging from cloning to time travel, Franny shows that ideas can be a blast and uses brains and ingenuity to save the day.
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  • Lunch Walks Among Us

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Sept. 1, 2004)
    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 attacks the class, everyone knows it's up to a mad scientist to save the day. But has Franny lost her creepy, crawly ways?
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  • Frantastic Voyage

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, May 1, 2006)
    Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy fans, meet Franny!Franny’s faithful Lab assistant, Igor, has swallowed a doomsday device that is ready to go off at any moment! For a regular scientist, it might seem like there’s only one way to get the device out—um...make that two ways. But Franny K. Stein is no ordinary scientist, so she concocts her own way to get the device back and save her friend. With her miniaturization machine, Franny shrinks herself to the size of a pin and goes on a field trip like no other...through the body of a ticking time-dog! Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!
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  • The Frandidate

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Sept. 8, 2009)
    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…
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  • The Fran with Four Brains

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Aug. 28, 2007)
    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!
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  • Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Jan. 1, 2005)
    Franny's mom says every mad scientist needs a lab assistant. So for Valentine's Day Franny gets just that -- a Lab assistant. Except Igor isn't a pure Lab. He's also part poodle, part Chihuahua, part beagle, part spaniel, part shepherd -- and all thumbs. Franny is fuming. She doesn't even need an assistant. What's she supposed to do with a good-for-nothing one like Igor? And things get even worse when a giant, fifty-foot, arrow-shooting cupid starts causing trouble all over town. Franny knows it's up to her -- and only her -- to save the day. Or is it?
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  • The Invisible Fran

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, June 1, 2005)
    Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy fans, meet Franny!There’s nothing better than being a mad scientist—at least according to Franny. So she’s making it her mission to help her classmates discover their own inner mad scientists. All Franny needs for her latest experiment is a few volunteers, a half-completed two-headed robot, and an invisibility potion. Only this experiment just might prove to be Franny’s most difficult. Because what do you do when your classmates don’t know anything about mad science—and there’s a doubly dumb robot running amok to prove it?
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  • The Fran That Time Forgot

    Jim Benton

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, March 1, 2005)
    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!
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  • Bad Hair Day

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, July 21, 2020)
    Franny K. Stein is back with another laugh-out-loud experimental adventure in the eighth book in the Mad Scientist series from Jim Benton, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of the Dear Dumb Diary and It’s Happy Bunny series.Franny K. Stein isn’t a fan of glamour. She doesn’t style her hair, the thought of wearing makeup makes her want to gag, and she couldn’t care less about wearing dressy dresses when she’d much prefer her lab coat. But sometimes Franny wonders if her mom wishes she were different. Which gives Franny an idea…for an experiment! What if she can turn the beauty products her mom loves into something more exciting? Every experiment has its experimental error, and when Franny’s hair takes on a life of its own, Franny must save the day (and her hair) to finally realize her mom loves her just the way she is.
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  • Franny K. Stein's Crate of Danger: Lunch Walks Among Us; Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid; The Invisible Fran; The Fran That Time Forgot

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Oct. 1, 2005)
    Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy fans, meet Franny! A boxed set of the first four books in the Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist series!Franny K. Stein is not your average girl—she’s a mad scientist. She prefers poison ivy to daisies and piranha to goldfish, and when Franny jumps rope, she uses her pet snake. Being a mad scientist is exciting, but it does have its drawbacks. From fending off giant monstrous fiends to getting a lab assistant to battling her own teenage self, Franny has her hands full! Join her on her first four wacky, weird, creepy adventures and find out why Franny is everyone’s favorite mad scientist. This collection includes: Lunch Walks Among Us Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid The Invisible Fran The Fran That Time Forgot
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  • Recipe for Disaster

    Jim Benton

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, July 21, 2020)
    Franny K. Stein is back with another laugh-out-loud experimental adventure in the ninth book in the Mad Scientist series from Jim Benton, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of the Dear Dumb Diary and It’s Happy Bunny series.Franny K. Stein isn’t a good baker. But when she sees that the fundraisers for the art and music departments at her school aren’t making enough money, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Using her genius mind and kitchen, which is really just another type of laboratory, she sets out to create The Most Delicious Muffin On Earth! Sales, of course, go through the roof. But bad things can happen when people become exposed to the best thing they’ve ever tasted. They can become...overenthusiastic.
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  • The Fran That Time Forgot

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Oct. 1, 2005)
    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!
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