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Series: Freddy and the French Fries
Author: David Baldacci
Copyright: 2005
Freddy T. Funkhouser like his father, Alfred, is a great scientist who makes quirky things. One of Alfred's inventions is the automatic seed shooter, which he uses to shoot tomato seeds at customers at the Burger Castle restaurant. Unfortunately, the Burger Castle has not had many customers recently. It seems people are not interested in eating "soybean and tofu burgers or carrot and eggplant hotdogs" not to mention the "fat-free fries that make your hair grow" (p. 4). The Funkhouser family's chief rivals are the Spanker family who own the Patty Cakes restaurant. The food at Patty Cakes is full of everything bad for the human body, which is exactly what makes customers want to eat it.
The upcoming Founder's Day parade will provide the Funkhouser family the opportunity to impress the local people and gain new customers. If only they can make a parade float more impressive than the Spanker family's float. Freddy puts his scientific skills to work in effort to make the Funkhouser float as unique as possible. In the process he creates walking, talking french fries of various colors, sizes, and types. Theodore is a blue crinkle-cut fry and highly intellectual. The tiny yellow fry is Ziggy, but don't let his size fool you he has an enormous voice. Wally is a purple waffle fry who needs/wants to eat constantly. The green curly fry is named Curly and runs all of the words in his sentences together. Si and Meese are conjoined red shoestring fries whose personalities are complete opposites of each other.
When the fries leave Freddy's laboratory they have some adventures of their own that land Alfred Funkhouser in jail. Will the fries help save the Funkhouser family and Burger Castle or will their existence land Freddy in jail and destroy the Burger castle forever.
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