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Check, Please!

Stern, A. J.

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Grosset & Dunlap

Just the Series: Frankly, Frannie

Annotation: Frannie goes to dinner at a brand new French restaurant and tries her hand at being a food critic, even as she starts a campaign to warn other diners that there are insects on the menu.

Genre: [Humorous fiction]

Reviews: 1

Catalog Number: #4629129

Format: Paperback

Special Formats: Chapter Book

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Edition Date: 2010 Release Date: 09/16/10

Illustrator: Marts, Doreen Mulryan,

Pages: 128 pages

ISBN: 0-448-45352-5

ISBN 13: 978-0-448-45352-1

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2010014757

Dimensions: 20 cm.

Subject Heading:
Restaurants. Fiction.
Journalists. Fiction.
Cooking, French. Fiction.
Behavior. Fiction.
Family life. New York (State). Fiction.
New York (State). Fiction.

Language: English

Reviews:

Horn Book

In her third story, Frannie convinces the town that the new fancy French restaurant is serving bugs (they're actually escargot). In the process, she meets a food critic and writes a couple of her own reviews, one pre-bug-fiasco, one (retraction) after tasting the snails. Frannie (and Junie B.) fans may giggle at her made-up words and malapropisms; others will find them annoyingly cutesy.

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Word Count: 13,435

Reading Level: 4.9

Interest Level: 1-4

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.9 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 140245 / grade: Lower Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:4.7 / points:5.0 / quiz:Q51021

Lexile: 770L

Guided Reading Level: M

ItÕs opening night at a local restaurant, and the service is a little slow. Always on the lookout for employment opportunities, Frannie sidles up to the bus station, grabs some bread baskets and water pitchers, and lends a helping hand. Who knows, maybe the restaurant will hire her on permanently? ThatÕs what she hopes anyway, until she discovers patrons eating escargotÑactual snails! Frannie knows itÕs up to her to warn people away from the disgusting mollusks. But can she do it without ruining the restaurantÕs reputation?

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