Fries Alive! (Freddy and the French Fries No.1) - Softcover

Baldacci, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316059013 ISBN 13: 9780316059015

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006

Synopsis

Freddy Funkhouser comes up with an idea to bolster business for his family's fast-food health restaurant, Burger Castle, and finally defeat Pookesville's biggest bully, Adam Spanker. When Freddy's fun invention goes awry, the results are five very funny French fries who come to life and wreak havoc in Freddy's family and community. With some help from his cheese-cube-loving best friend Howie Kapowie, and armed with his dad's inventions, Freddy and the French Fries set out to bring Spanker and his gang down in a final showdown, proving that brains have an edge over brawn any time.

About this title

About the Author:

David Baldacci is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels including Hour Game, Split Second and The Christmas Train. His books are published in over 30 languages in more than 80 countries. There are nearly 40 million copies in print worldwide. Freddy and the French Fries is his first book for young readers.

Rudy Baldacci, David Baldacci's older brother, is a freelance artist who lives in Glen Allen, Virginia.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6–It's not easy being a boy genius when your father runs a floundering health-conscious burger joint and your older sister's a deeply annoying wannabe actress. But Freddy T. Funkhouser isn't distressed. He has a plan to win the prize for the best float at the local Founders' Day Parade and bring more attention to his dad's business. To do so, he has constructed five life-sized mechanical fries, each with its own personality. The hope is to bring these kooky creations to life through nanotechnology and a million jiggy-watts of power and then use them on his float. Yet when an experiment involving a dam and a bolt of lightning does awaken the electric fries, Freddy finds his troubles have only just begun. Baldacci, best known for his adult thrillers, is attempting to reach out to reluctant readers by creating a series very much in the vein of Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" series (Scholastic), but for an older audience. Unfortunately, he lacks Pilkey's gleeful silliness and relies too heavily on gross-out jokes and slapstick pratfalls. His attempt to teach kids about the importance of friends and sticking together gets bogged down by poor writing and two-dimensional characters.–Elizabeth Bird, New York Public Library
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0316059013
• ISBN 13: 9780316059015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192