Figuring Out Frances

by Gina Willner-Pardo

With a light touch, this insightful novel charts a fourth grader's course through the complexities of family and friendship. Abby is trying hard to understand the things that puzzle her. One is her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395915104
• ISBN13: 9780395915103
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

Figuring Out Frances

Who is Frances and why does Abby's grandmother always call her that? Abby tells her over and over again that her name is Abby. Her grandmother has altimers desies were she forgets thing in the present and remembers thing that happened in the past. Abby has a strong determination to find out who Francis is and why she reminds her grandmother of her. Can Abby find the courage to make her grandmother tell her who Francis is. Once she finally can does she have the talent to piece it all together.

Fun and Smart

When Abigail finds out her best friend Travis is going to live next door perminently she is very exsited, but when he betrais her she feels lost. Her grandmother that has alzheimers calls her Frances and she desides to figure out who Frances is.

The Best Book

I like Figuring Out Frances because it's like you're living right through it with the characters until the end. It is a fantastic book for anybody to read and love! I myself couldn't put it down, it was so good! It had sort of a beat to it, like one chapter happy, the next sad, then angry, then happy and so on. Some people in my fourth grade class think that I am just a plain bookworm. I love every book and say that it is the best of all of them, but I'm not stretching the truth about this book being the best! I would give this book to anybody who likes mysterious but not-so-scary books, not that this book is scary! It was fun and interesting plus easy for me to read. Abigail (main character) seemed like a friendly girl and had a nice relationship with Travis and her grandma.