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SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020

www.SimonSchuster.com

Copyright © 2005 by Jim Benton

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Book design by Dan Potash and Lucy Ruth Cummins

The illustrations for this book are rendered in

pen, ink, and watercolor.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Benton, Jim. The Fran that time forgot /[written and] illustrated by Jim Benton.

— 1st ed. p. cm. — (Franny K. Stein, mad scientist ; #4)

Summary: When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at school, mad scientist Franny K. Stein experiments with time in order to return to the past and give herself a more dignified name.

ISBN 0-689-86294-6

ISBN 978-1-442-49519-7 (eBook)

[1. Science—Experiments—Fiction. 2. Time travel—Fiction.

3. Names, Personal—Fiction. 4. Humorous stories.] I. Title.

PZ7.B447547Fr 2005

[Fic]—dc22

2004011638