Chapter 1

Frank einstein and the brain turbo

1 HE HUMAN BODY IS AMAZING," SAYS FRANK EINSTEIN, TO WATSON, in Tthe visitors' dugout of the Midville baseball diamond, watching Janegoodall on the pitcher's mound. Frank thumbs the joystick on the remote control for his mini FrankenDrone. The little quadcopter swoops into position above the mound and starts beaming pictures back to Frank's display. Janegoodall turns sideways to home plate. "There is the whole system of bones making up the skeleton," marvels Frank. She folds her arms close to her chest, lifting

her left leg in a windup. "The whole muscular system moving the bones...," Frank continues. Janegoodall strides forward. "The digestive system producing energy for

the muscles..." She pushes off the mound with her right leg. "The heart and blood circulatory system delivering that energy..." Unfolding her arms, turning her body, extending and windmilling her right arm.

"And the nervous system controlling everything... Amazing." Releasing the baseball from her right hand. "Mmm-hmm," agrees Watson, thoughtfully sucking a sour lemon candy.

The ball flies from the tips of Janegoodall's fingers and across the forty-six feet to home plate in just over half a second. Klank swings his bat and misses. Poom! The ball hits Klink's catcher's mitt. "Strike one," announces Klink. "Projectile speed, fifty-five miles per hour." Frank studies the drone pictures and the diagrams of the human body systems on his laptop display. "So all we have to do to help Janegoodall is come up with an invention to make the human body just a bit more amazing." Watson follows his sour lemon with a sweet cherry candy. "That's all? Oh, simple! Just make the human body better than it already is... the day before tryouts! Are you crazy?" "Of course not," says Frank Einstein, bringing the FrankenDrone into the dugout for a perfect landing. "I have some ideas I've