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    Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace
    Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace
    Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace
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    Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace

    By Eric Wight

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    Frankie is struggling. This time it’s not to keep his room clean, or to win the Pine Run 3000. It is something much more serious: MATH! He just doesn’t get it—it seems impossible. So instead of acing his quiz, the numbers become unconquerable monsters. When Frankie finally shares his problem with his family and his best friend, Kenny, they band together to create a math obstacle course that will teach Frankie everything from subtraction to long division—in the most fun of ways! Can Frankie and his imagination overcome the Mathematical Menace that haunts him?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    Release dateJul 26, 2011
    ISBN9781439155844
    Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace
    Author

    Eric Wight

    Eric Wight is an author, illustrator, and animation director. His first book, My Dead Girlfriend (Tokyopop), was nominated for the 2008 Best Graphic Novel of the Year Award by the Young Adult Library Services Association. In 2004, Wight won the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award for his illustration work in The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, the comic book adaptation of Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.  Eric lives in Chalfont, Pennsylvania with his family.  Visit him on the web at ericwight.com.

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    • 3/5
      Another exciting adventure with frankie.He gets a math test that turns into monsters.He is to find a way to learn and understand these problems,where will he go and will he understand the problem.
    • 3/5
      Overwhelmed by the quiz on multiplication and division, Frankie resorts to doodling on the paper instead. Not looking kindly on Frankie’s number monsters filling the page, the teacher gives him another chance to take the quiz. Getting a second chance is a relief in a way but torture in another: it means Frankie needs to study math all weekend. Family members and friends seemingly sabotage his study time but are, in fact, engaging Frankie in real-life math: figuring percents and using coupons at the grocery store, playing games that require multiplication and division, and dealing with fractions as he and his dad double the ingredients in the recipe they make. From a story perspective, Frankie’s emotional arc is believable; readers will relate to his worries. While sometimes a bit forced, the mathematical connections create the context for when we really do math. The format has kid appeal, as the story is told in both prose and in graphic format (when Frankie’s imagination takes him on wild adventures).
    • 5/5
      Reason for Reading: next in the series.I'll be frank. I'm usually not fond of stories about math. They start out with some kid either hating or having a hard time with math and then they are shown how math is used in the real world and just how relevant it is in everyday life. Usually something especially fun the kid enjoys is used to entice him/her and in the end the kid either likes math, is good at math or thinks it *is* fun. Well, Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace is no exception when it comes to plot, but I thoroughly enjoyed the story this time.First of all, Frankie is already our friend from the previous two books and I was excited to read his latest adventure. Frankie's imagination takes over and the graphic sequences are hilarious as he turns everyday events into grand excitement. I must admit Frankie's friend, sister and parents were all very creative in the way they applied math to Frankie's life and they all turned into humorous scenarios which made for a very funny story. There is no getting past the teaching aspect of the story but it is all done with brilliant humour and a witty attitude. I loved the illustration of Frankie imagining being stuck in the same grade forever and his baby sister catching up with him. She's turned into a hip little girl "Thanks for driving me to school today, bro." and Frankie is a goatee-ed teenager squished into the elementary desk with a look of desperation on his face. A fun book. Looking forward to the next installment due out in Mar. 2012.

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    Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace - Eric Wight

    Also by Eric Wight

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    and the Pine Run 3000

    SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

    An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

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    www.SimonandSchuster.com

    This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events,

    real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters,

    places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any

    resemblance to actual events or locales or persons,

    living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

    Copyright © 2011 by Eric Wight

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    Book design by Eric Wight and Tom Daly

    The text for this book is set in Farao.

    The illustrations for this book are rendered digitally.

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    0611 FFG

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Wight, Eric, 1974—

    Frankie Pickle and the mathematical menace / Eric Wight. —

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