The Frankie Files
By A.J. Ponder
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About this ebook
Are you ready for Monsters and Mayhem? Frankie wants to be a famous inventor, but her inventions are always getting her into Monster Trouble.
Fun for all ages, it's aimed at primary and intermediate students. Some basic science concepts are explored, and there's even a monster word search in the back, containing both fun and scientific words. Perfect for young inventors and scientists, this is a novel made up of short stories and Monster Invention Logbook entries, and has other nods to the original Frankenstein.
From USA Today Bestselling author, A,J. Ponder and including the Sir Julius Vogel Award winning Frankie and the Netball Clone first published by Challenge, Australia's National Students' Magazine.)
A.J. Ponder
Sir Julius Vogel award winning author, A.J. Ponder, first picked up a pen when the dinosaurs still roamed the Earth...and probably dragons as well. Back then, it was important to learn sword-fighting to fend off marauding T-Rex’s, but now it’s a skill reserved for fight scenes and irksome sea-monsters.
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The Frankie Files - A.J. Ponder
Foreword
Do you know hard it is to become a world-famous inventor?
Neither did I, but Uncle Ernie said I wouldn’t get far without a plan, and taking lots of notes. So, I wrote all these notes. Well, I just spoke into a microphone, and my Frankie Patented Scrivener wrote for me. (My brother, Dave, said someone’s already invented a speech-to-writing machine, but I think mine’s better, and it’s much easier than knowing how to spell.)
I always knew I needed a lab, but Mum wouldn’t even let me have a chemistry set at home, not after I broke the first one making volcano lava by heating rocks. She said I should make lava from baking soda and vinegar – how silly is that?
I thought I’d have a laboratory to work in at school. I also thought my teacher would be a monster – because my brother said all teachers are monsters.
I was so disappointed.
Monsters are so much fun.
Contents
Foreword
Frankie N. Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
List of things I have
List of things I need
My First Day at School
My Healthy Eating Project
Frankie N. Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
Making a Fruit battery
Frankie N. Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
Martie
Frankie N Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
Tiny Trouble
Frankie’s Christmas Letters
Frankie N. Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
The Homeworkulator
Frankie N. Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
My Hot Air Balloon Monster
Frankie N Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
Robot
Frankie N Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
My Super Amazing Time Machine Theory
Frankie and the Duck-Billed Dinosaurs
Frankie N Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
My Super Amazing Time Machine continued:
Dinosaurologist
Frankie N Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
The Cactus Monster and the Amazing Zap Blaster Ray
Bite
Frankie N Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
Making a Super-Brained Automatic Deluxe Homeworkulator Series II
Science Club
Frankie N Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
How to make an Amazing Sniffer Machine
Guard Dog 3000
Frankenstein, the Play
Frankie N Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
Frankie and the Netball Clone
Frankie N Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
Notes
Fusion
Frankie N Stein’s Monster Invention Logbook
List of things I have
List of things I need
Spaceship
More Books by A.J. Ponder
Attack of the Giant Bugs You Choose a Science and Spies Adventure (Ages 8-12)
Wizard’s Guide to Wellington (Ages 8-12)
Frankie’s Monster Word search
Biography
Acknowledgments
The Frankie Files by A.J. Ponder
Frankie N. Stein’s
Monster Invention Logbook
Mum says lists are important. If you forget something when you go shopping, you’ll end up having spaghetti pizza with Brussel sprouts for tea.
I don’t like Brussel sprouts, and I don’t want to accidentally become a physicist like Uncle Ernie either. Not when I can become a world-famous inventor like Einstein – so I made a list of important things.
List of things I have
Monster Book of Plants
Monster Book of Monsters
My Big Book of Dinosaurs
DIY Invention Box (odds and ends and bits of wire)
Handyman’s toolkit and multimeter
The Fabulous Book of Famous Inventors & Inventions
List of things I need
A Mad-Labs Invention Kit
An assistant
Lots of amazing famous inventions
A monster pet
A nemesis (every great person must face great challenges)
A chemistry set
A science lab of my very own
A subscription to A.J. Ponder’s mailing list, for great story offers and previews
My First Day at School
Frankie N Stein Aged 51/2
Hi, I’m Frankie and I hate school. Everyone said it would be fun, but it’s not. For a start, there’s NO science lab, and NO monsters – except my teacher Miss Petal, but she’s the wrong sort of monster. She even makes science boring. Dave, my big brother, got to make volcanoes and airplanes, but no, we’ve got to do a stupid project about fluffy animals.
I hate fluffy animals. Except the Yeti, or Bigfoot or Gremlins...
Miss Petal said Gremlins weren’t real.
I said she should tell that to Roald Dahl and the air fighters in World War II. But she wouldn’t listen.
No Gremlins. No Yeti, and no Bigfoot. Why don’t you do a nice project on puppies like Henry? Or kittens like Annabel? Look how they’ve used colour pencils and magazine pictures. See, aren’t their projects pretty?
I decided to do my project on Cerberus – he’s a dog – the three-headed dog who guards the gates of the underworld in Greek mythology.
Miss Petal didn’t like my project. She said I should sit down to use the scissors. Something about safety and my cutting out not being very good. Then she said dogs don’t have three heads.
I told her I knew that, but wouldn’t it be a good idea to make one that did? It could look after things like lunch boxes. Nobody would steal them if a three-headed dog was on guard.
She said, We don’t have a problem with lunch boxes being stolen.
It will be easy,
I said. All I need is some plushy puppies and a needle and thread.
She wouldn’t even listen. Why don’t you have a time-out while I ring your parents?
I don’t know why she was getting so upset about soft toys.
After morning tea, Miss Petal said, We’re going to study healthy eating. Please be sensible or I’ll have to send you to Mrs McGinty.
I was very sensible. I put up my hand when Miss Petal asked if anyone had any questions. Miss Petal, can I please make a giant killer vegetable?
She ignored me. Here are some healthy vegetables.
She pulled a pumpkin, a cucumber and some tomatoes from her bag.
Which was very strange. According to the Monster book of Plants they’re all fruit. You can tell because they have seeds in them. But I didn’t say a word, because Miss Petal hadn’t said anything about not being able to make giant killer fruit.
She sent us off to start a Healthy Eating Project and plant our very own radishes and put them on the windowsill. I asked if I could grow a seed from one of the tomatoes. She said, Yes, dear.
First, I searched how to