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Freaky Frank
In many ways, Frank Fratello is a typical teen. He plays baseball, hangs out with his friends at the mall and gets in trouble at home. But there’s something very different about this sixth-grader—he can read minds. And reading minds can cause problems. Like when Frank says what someone is thinking before they say it. Or answers a question before they ask it.
Despite being telepathic, Frank must deal with everyday middle school life, which includes battling a bully who hates him. Nasty Nate and his flunkies live to get others in trouble—especially Frank.
But Frank and his friends aren’t giving up. There has to be some way to bring Nasty Nate down. They just have to find it.
Despite being telepathic, Frank must deal with everyday middle school life, which includes battling a bully who hates him. Nasty Nate and his flunkies live to get others in trouble—especially Frank.
But Frank and his friends aren’t giving up. There has to be some way to bring Nasty Nate down. They just have to find it.
84 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 25, 2014
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Buffy Andrews
27 books98 followersBuffy Andrews is an Amazon best-selling author. She is president of Author and Friends LLC and Andrews Creative Concepts.
She lives in southcentral Pennsylvania with her husband, Tom.
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She lives in southcentral Pennsylvania with her husband, Tom.
Author website: www.authorbuffyandrews.com
Shop at her online literary gift stores:
Author and Friends on Cafepress: www.cafepress.com/authorandfriends
Author and Friends on Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/AuthorAndFriends
Author and Friends on Teepublic: http://tee.pub/lic/authorandfriends
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September 2, 2014
Nice guys do win--especially when they can read your mind.
Freaky Frank, a middle grade novel by Buffy Andrews, is a fun story that appeals to a wide range of readers. The humor is just gross enough to engage a sixth-grade boy without making his grandmother put the book down in disgust. Instead, both will snicker and sometimes laugh out loud at the antics and adventures of Frank, a normal twelve-year-old mind reader. Andrews delivers a life lesson while drawing her readers into an entertaining story in which the little guys win and the bullies get what’s coming to them.
Andrews is a multi-faceted author who writes in many genres. Inside her books, the reader will always find realistic characters that come to life in stories that are finished all too soon.
Freaky Frank, a middle grade novel by Buffy Andrews, is a fun story that appeals to a wide range of readers. The humor is just gross enough to engage a sixth-grade boy without making his grandmother put the book down in disgust. Instead, both will snicker and sometimes laugh out loud at the antics and adventures of Frank, a normal twelve-year-old mind reader. Andrews delivers a life lesson while drawing her readers into an entertaining story in which the little guys win and the bullies get what’s coming to them.
Andrews is a multi-faceted author who writes in many genres. Inside her books, the reader will always find realistic characters that come to life in stories that are finished all too soon.
October 4, 2014
I am so NOT the target audience for Buffy Andrews' Middle Grade Story, but I loved every moment I spent reading this rich story about the issues that make the teen years...mercurial, and a few extra that add to the many dilemmas of spirit, soul, good, bad, and OMG...beyond simply challenging.
Our hero, Frank has a skill no one else knows anything about, not his best friend, his teachers, his parents...no one! He's telepathic.
Growing up is hard enough when you have nothing more than the normal angst of puberty and advancing adolescence. Reading everyone's minds...and never allowing yourself to accidentally slip and blurt out something you should not "hear"...Oh Boy!
Nasty Nate is the school's vile bully. Most of his classmates are stuck on the receiving end of his cruelty, but Frank...Frank can sidestep Nate because he can READ the nasty piece of work's mind.
That should be all Frank needs to bring Nate to his knees and get him good and caught...problem is to do so would expose Frank's skills to all...and that he just knows would not make his life easier.
Buffy Andrews has created a delightful hero in Frank and a coterie of heroes in his geeky friends...all of them victims of Nasty Nate's dark cruelty. Can Frank expose Nate to the adults and do so without exposing his own secrets?
This book was a delight for me even though I am long past the time when I was the target audience...but I understand how hard it is to be the kid with a "difference" when "normal" is what everyone expects from you.
I am not telepathic...mostly...I'm an empath. (A dear friend calls me a "Prism" and even though I am well beyond the intrigues of middle, junior and senior high school, I REMEMBER...Even in my longer-in-the-tooth years beneath my growth belt, I remember what it was like "knowing things...FEELING things...drawing people to me because of my "SECRET" and how to this day a part of me shies away from it when a stranger will come up to me and say, "I know you. I need you to fix me.")
Any paranormal power has a price, a price few understand that makes for a lonely existence ninety nine percent of the time.
Buffy Andrews gave Frank a glorious sense of humor, a quirky obsessive spelling habit, and a conscious that draws you in, keeps you in, and makes you cheer the mini-paths he must navigate every day and with just about every one.
If you like reading stories that show the bully getting thwarted no matter how vile and cunning he's decides to be, this is a RIGHT PERFECT Book.
How can I claim that...not being its target audience?
I grew up to be a teacher...a teacher who has always been on the lookout for the kinds of stories my students would enjoy reading AND learn from.
FREAKY FRANK fits on that list with ease.
Buffy knows her audience and how to fashion the words she uses to build her story with an adept skill she can appeal to a long-in-the-toother like me with out dropping a participle or inappropriately compounding a sentence, and blow her target audience into fits of humor and high-fiving.
Well Done, Ms. Andrews
This is Ladybug Lin saying, FREAKY FRANK
has easily earned
FIVE STARS!
Ms. Andrews, now that I've been introduced to your storytelling skills, I am eagerly looking forward to my next trip into your growing library of delightful tales.
Thank you.
Our hero, Frank has a skill no one else knows anything about, not his best friend, his teachers, his parents...no one! He's telepathic.
Growing up is hard enough when you have nothing more than the normal angst of puberty and advancing adolescence. Reading everyone's minds...and never allowing yourself to accidentally slip and blurt out something you should not "hear"...Oh Boy!
Nasty Nate is the school's vile bully. Most of his classmates are stuck on the receiving end of his cruelty, but Frank...Frank can sidestep Nate because he can READ the nasty piece of work's mind.
That should be all Frank needs to bring Nate to his knees and get him good and caught...problem is to do so would expose Frank's skills to all...and that he just knows would not make his life easier.
Buffy Andrews has created a delightful hero in Frank and a coterie of heroes in his geeky friends...all of them victims of Nasty Nate's dark cruelty. Can Frank expose Nate to the adults and do so without exposing his own secrets?
This book was a delight for me even though I am long past the time when I was the target audience...but I understand how hard it is to be the kid with a "difference" when "normal" is what everyone expects from you.
I am not telepathic...mostly...I'm an empath. (A dear friend calls me a "Prism" and even though I am well beyond the intrigues of middle, junior and senior high school, I REMEMBER...Even in my longer-in-the-tooth years beneath my growth belt, I remember what it was like "knowing things...FEELING things...drawing people to me because of my "SECRET" and how to this day a part of me shies away from it when a stranger will come up to me and say, "I know you. I need you to fix me.")
Any paranormal power has a price, a price few understand that makes for a lonely existence ninety nine percent of the time.
Buffy Andrews gave Frank a glorious sense of humor, a quirky obsessive spelling habit, and a conscious that draws you in, keeps you in, and makes you cheer the mini-paths he must navigate every day and with just about every one.
If you like reading stories that show the bully getting thwarted no matter how vile and cunning he's decides to be, this is a RIGHT PERFECT Book.
How can I claim that...not being its target audience?
I grew up to be a teacher...a teacher who has always been on the lookout for the kinds of stories my students would enjoy reading AND learn from.
FREAKY FRANK fits on that list with ease.
Buffy knows her audience and how to fashion the words she uses to build her story with an adept skill she can appeal to a long-in-the-toother like me with out dropping a participle or inappropriately compounding a sentence, and blow her target audience into fits of humor and high-fiving.
Well Done, Ms. Andrews
This is Ladybug Lin saying, FREAKY FRANK
has easily earned
FIVE STARS!
Ms. Andrews, now that I've been introduced to your storytelling skills, I am eagerly looking forward to my next trip into your growing library of delightful tales.
Thank you.
September 26, 2014
If this ends up as a series, I am highly interested. I can't wait for my daughter to read this. Frank is a smart kid with an amazing gift. I love the characters and how they interact with each other. These kids tackle self-esteem and bullying, and come out on top. Excellent read!
December 6, 2014
This is definitely a book I'm passing on to my 12-year-old son. It's so right down his alley. Great boy humour, but good writing too. I wasn't bored for a second. Who could possibly be bored by a boy who reads minds?
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