Frankie Fish and the Sonic Suitcase
Author: Peter Helliar
Illustrator: Lesley Vamos
Book 1 in the Frankie Fish series
Pages: 280
Published: 2017
Age: 8+
Twelve-year-old Frankie Fish hates visiting his grandparents. Grandad Fish is cranky, and yells a lot, and has a creepy hook for a hand – plus he NEVER lets Frankie go inside his shed. But after a teensy tiny prank goes wrong at school, Frankie is packed off to Old-People Jail for the whole holidays.
What Frankie doesn’t know is that Grandad has been building a home-made TIME MACHINE in the Forbidden Shed, and the old man has big plans to get his missing hand back. But when Grandad goes back in time, he changes history and accidentally wipes out Frankie’s entire family – Nanna, Mum, Dad, even his annoying sister Saint Lou. Somehow, everyone is gone but Frankie and Grandad! And it’s only a matter of time until Frankie disappears too...
As the last Fish men standing, Frankie and Granddad must race back in time to undo this terrible mistake. But can they stand each other long enough to put the past back together again? And even if they manage the impossible – will Grandad's wonky time-machine ever get them home?
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About the Frankie Fish Series
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
What do you do when your cranky-pants grandad builds a time machine and accidentally deletes the whole family? If you're Frankie Fish, you race against the clock to FIX IT!
Get ready for the first instalment of Peter Helliar's hilarious new children's series. Twelve-year-old prankster Frankie must team up with his grumpy grandad to save the family after the old man accidentally stops himself from marrying Nanna – and wipes out Frankie's whole family.
It's all down to Frankie and Grandad to put the past back together again. But can a young prankster and an old crank ever get along? And even if they manage the impossible, will Grandad's wonky time-machine ever get them home?
Frankie Fish and the Sonic Suitcase is a laugh-out-loud time-travel adventure about mega-mischief, missing limbs, and a grandad with a wicked secret, out 1st March 2017 for readers aged 8+!