Jim Benton

Jim Benton delivers a madcap tale starring the strange yet endearing Franny K. Stein. The new kid at school, Franny approaches making friends as an exciting science project. After taking careful notes, she brews a potion that changes her into a perfect girl. But when a monster snatches her...

Franny K. Stein isn't a good baker. But when she sees that the fundraisers for the art and music departments at her school aren't making enough money, she decides to take matters into her own hands....

Franny K. Stein is back with another laugh-out-loud experimental adventure in the eighth book in the Mad Scientist series from Jim Benton, the New York Times best-selling author of Dear Dumb Diary and Happy Bunny. Franny K. Stein isn't a fan of glamour. She doesn't style her hair, the thought...

In this episode of Jim Benton’s New York Times best-selling series, mad scientist Franny K. Stein thinks her new canine lab assistant, Igor, is useless, ordering him to keep his paws off everything in her bustling laboratory. But after the hapless dog’s bouncing toy accidentally triggers...

In this sixth entry in Jim Benton’s New York Times best-selling series, pint-sized Franny K. Stein dreams up a zany cure for having too much to do....

In this seventh madcap entry from Jim Benton’s New York Times best-selling series, pint-sized Franny K. Stein has the perfect solution for getting elected class president - the mad science way. In the privacy of her laboratory, Franny combines the DNA of a dog, a chameleon, and a parrot to...

In this madcap episode of Jim Benton’s best-selling series, Franny K. Stein must find and disarm her Doomsday Device before it blows up half the world....

In this zany episode of Jim Benton’s New York Times best-selling series, pint-sized mad scientist Franny K. Stein dreams up a time-reversing cake plate that lets her “have her cake and eat it too.” As the principal honors her, however, people laugh at her middle name, Kissypie. But when...

Victor Shmud has been many things: knuckle doctor, a hunter of ghost bears, a tattoo artist, the guy at the restaurant who puts the sugar in those little envelopes, a computer scientist....

In this episode of Jim Benton’s New York Times best-selling series, the classmates of Franny K. Stein show no appreciation for her passion—mad science. Even when Franny displays her two-headed robot, they show little interest. But after Franny makes herself invisible and whispers...

There's nothing Jake likes more than some good trash-picking, so when his neighbors move out and leave a promising-looking pile of household refuse on the curb, he goes right for it....