Another fun adventure with our favorite mad scientist! I absolutely adore the Franny series! This was such a fun read filled with mad scientist shenanigans and a bake sale gone wrong. I adore the art style used in the book and found the story to be so fun. This is a great book for kids and a definite easy read!

Summary:
The ninth book from the Mad Scientist series, Franny K. Stein is experimenting on a new project for her classmates. Her classmates need to fundraise supplies for their art and music departments, in which they started a bake sale. Franny realized their baking is horrible and offered to bake some herself. But she came to realize that baking is harder than she thought! So she quickly thought of a plan to help them out... and out comes the best muffin ever made! Bake sales quickly improve and people are so excited but of course there is a catch.

Review:
The main character is developed as a person of independence and have her individuality. It was great to see some of the illustrations placed throughout the book during some of the good points of the story. The plot of the story is well written with a good suspense on how the problem was going to be resolved. A great read for young readers that love creating new adventures and finding out how to solve a problem along the way. I am looking forward to purchase the series in my elementary library.

Definitely Try One

This is the ninth book in the "Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist" series. If you haven't read any of the books, and you have a young reader who likes books like "Captain Underpants" or "Dog Man", I'd say you should definitely try one. But at least for me these books are a real mixed bag.

On the one hand you have a smart, sciencey, resourceful, and independent heroine with a can do attitude and unbridled enthusiasm for problem solving. On the other hand, she's also careless, headstrong, and oblivious to consequences. You can be charmed and then exasperated from page to page, or even within the same page. She is, after all, a "Mad" scientist, so you have to take the rough with the smooth.

The plots are wildly over the top. This time around, for example, Franny invents some muffins that are so addictive she turns her whole school into a bunch of muffin-addled zombies. She creates a mad robotic baker out of some junk scraps and an old heating furnace. That's the sort of antic and manic plotting and action you get in these books, and if your reader likes that then he or she will be in heaven with these books. There's absolutely no effort to make anything that happens seem plausible, but at this stage who needs plausibility.

And here's the kicker. At least once or twice in every book there's a line or a bit that's really very clever and funny. It may be a dry throwaway line from Franny's Mom, or an exasperated comment by her teacher. Or an observation from a classmate. In this one Franny the scientist introduces her dog, Igor, as her lab assistant. Well, he's not actually a "Lab", he's more of a poodle mix. That just tickled me.

So, these are high energy, high interest books that might or might not appeal. But there's a lot going on and a lot for a kid to like if so inclined. As I say, I'd certainly give one, (any one), a try.

(Please note that I received a free advance ecopy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)