Frankie Fish and the Sonic Suitcase


by Peter Helliar (Author) Lesley Vamos (Illustrator)

Book Cover for Frankie Fish and the Sonic Suitcase

Pages: 280
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?






Frankie Fish Series—Summary and Book Order

Series: Frankie Fish
Reading level: 8+
Books in series: 1
Read in order? Yes
Tags: comedy & humour  fantasy  time travel  adventure  family 

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Books in series order

1.   Frankie Fish and the Sonic Suitcase  (2017)