Franny K. Stein, Little Girl Mad Scientist, the only one in her otherwise normal family interested in mad science, comes up with a winning invention for the school Science Fair project: a Time Warp Dessert Plate that allows her to have her cake and eat it too. Unfortunately, at the school assembly, when the principal hands out the certificates to the winners, she announces Franny's full name—Franny Kissypie Stein—to the crowd, and Franny is infuriated when everyone laughs. "There is nothing worse than being laughed at," she believes. To get even, she invents a Time Warper Device that takes her into the past where she changes her middle name to something more dignified: “Kaboom.”

This ongoing easy-to-read series is a wonderful mix of comedy, wordplay, a dog assistant named Igor, and lots of zany devices like remote-control scissors, porcupine underpants, and sugar-frosted snakes. Your mad scientists will start thinking up, planning, and maybe even constructing their own mad creations.


Themes: HUMOROUS FICTION. INVENTORS. NAMES. SCIENCE FICTION. SCIENTISTS. TIME TRAVEL.