2 Franny’s Room

CHAPTER TWO FRANNY'S ROOM Franny's bedroom was really something special. It had big steaming test tubes, strange bubbling beakers, and a whole bunch of crackling electrical gizmos that Franny had made all by herself.

Franny's room also had a giant tarantula cage, a snake house, and a tank where she raised a special breed of flying piranha. She couldn't imagine why anybody would want daisies and lilacs when they could have poison ivy and Venus flytraps. "There's no comparison," she'd say, ducking one of her flying piranha.

Franny thought her room was so great, and so wonderful, and so perfect for her that she almost never wanted to leave it. But she had to, of course, for things like going outside, eating dinner, going to school, and using the bathroom.

Which is something Franny really liked to do. Whoops. That didn't sound right. It was going to school that Franny really liked.