Frankie Stein Starts School - Softcover

Schaefer, Lola M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477810498 ISBN 13: 9781477810491

Publisher: Two Lions, 2018

Synopsis

Frankie Stein looks nothing like his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stein, or the spooky-looking kids at Miss Wart’s Academy for Ghouls & Goblins. His clean-cut looks make it hard for him to make friends. But Frankie knows a thing or two about being scary. He can make grotesque faces, paint bone-chilling pictures, and yelp as loud as a coyote. When he experiments with potions in the classroom and grows two fangs, he wins over the other kids, showing that popularity depends on more than how you look. Once again, Frankie Stein proves that he’s happiest when he’s true to himself. Kevan Atteberry’s digital illustrations lend a hand to this back-to-school spook-tacular story!

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About the Author

Author Lola M. Schaefer has written books on many subjects for all different ages, including Mittens (My First I Can Read Book), An Island Grows, and Arrowhawk. She enjoys visiting schools and sharing her enthusiasm for writing and reading. She lives in the mountains of north Georgia with her husband Ted.

Illustrator Kevan Atteberry has been drawing since he was young. Besides doing artwork for books, he has contributed to magazines, greeting cards, and games. He lives in the rainy Pacific Northwest, where he dreams of sunnier times. He likes crows, Halloween, and a really good pear.

From School Library Journal

K-Gr 2–When Frankie is born to parents who look like members of the Addams Family, his blond hair and pink cheeks make him seem like an outsider. At night school–Miss Wart's Academy for Ghouls & Goblins–the kids make fun of him for being different, but he assures them he can be as scary or scarier than they are. And he is. He wins a black star for contorting his face and transforms his looks with glow-in-the-dark chalk when the other students color on paper. He makes a horrible sound like a coyote, and in the science corner he creates a fang-growing potion. By the end of his first night, the others are imitating Frankie and he has a new group of friends. Atteberry's digitally rendered illustrations are bright and cheerfully frightening with lots of smiling faces. They perfectly support Schaefer's amusing text. The use of vocabulary like “grotesque,” “bloodcurdling,” and “ghoulish” is a wonderful challenge for young readers. This follow-up to Frankie Stein (Marshall Cavendish, 2007) is a delightful choice for an October storytime.Mary Hazelton, Elementary Schools in Warren & Waldoboro, ME
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About this edition

• Publisher: Two Lions
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1477810498
• ISBN 13: 9781477810491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 34
• Illustrator: Atteberry Kevan J.