Fleabrain Loves Franny

I loved reading this book! I couldn't wait to finish it, and now I did. Franny is stronger now, she can't walk yet, but she's better. Fleabrain took her on more adventures like shrinking to his size so she can know his world and he took her through all the 7 wonders of the world in one night. It's Franny's birthday and she is inviting some friends over, like her best friend Walter Walter, Katy and Teresa (the girl who thought she was contagious). Fleabrain and Franny shrink Nurse Olivegarten temporally but they regret it later when they discover there's no instant cure for it. She had a little fight with Fleabrain and they stop talking and spending time together. Fleabrain tries to reach Franny with his letters but she isn't responding to any of them. One day Franny starts to miss Fleabrain and she wants to be his friend again. They become friends again but they don't talk as much as they did before. Franny tries to go back to her old school but they say she can't assist anymore because she's in a wheelchair and the school is not designed for wheelchairs. Alf is scratching a lot and Franny's parents suspect he has fleas and they are about to put a flea spray that kills all fleas and Franny is worried about Fleabrain dying because of the spray, but luckily he doesn't die. At the end, Franny goes to the front of her old school and protests because she can't assist there. Now everyone understands that Franny isn't contagious and that they can get close to her without catching Polio as well. Some scientists finally discover a cure for Polio.

"Spring had always meant hope to Franny, for good times and imagined beginnings." (Rocklin 183)

This quote is really important in the book. It shows how Franny is starting to feel like she can do anything she can to feel better and recover soon. Before she had just wished that she got better, now she has hope and she is sure that she will be better really soon and that she can go back to do the things she did before she caught Polio. This happened when Franny knew that some scientist found a vaccine that would help cure Polio and all of Franny's family was happy about that. Unfortunately, the vaccine had to be tested in order to be able to sell it and for people to use it without having any colateral damage later.  However, it was too late now, for Franny to take the vaccine, there was nothing she could do at this point. everyone was upset that the cure wasn't found before so Franny could get cured faster. Franny got a little mad because she felt that she was never going to get better, but she had hope and she knew, even though sometimes she thought she couldn't, that she would get better. Her family tried to help her by telling her that the exercises that Nurse Olivegarten made her do to get better. It is important in Franny's recovery that her family is there for her when she needs them and that they will help her understand what she's going through.

"He was happy for her. Oh, he was so happy for her. He was happy" (Rocklin 224)

This quote is when Francine and Fleabrain fight. Fleabrain missed Franny very much and he missed the moments he spent with her. He wrote a lot of letters to her, hoping for an answer but he didn't get one, Franny didn't answered to his many letters, she was sad. Fleabrain wasn't angry, he just missed her, she was a true friend to him. They were so close, it hurt having to lose contact with someone that close to you, specially when you care about that person, you care about him/her so much, that even though you two are in a fight, you want the other person to be happy and you wish them the best, even when you don't admit you do. That's how important friendship is, your true friends will always treat you well and they will always care for you, if they aren't your true friends they wont'c care if you are mad with them because they don't value your friendship, unlike true friends who will always appreciate you for who you are inside. Those are the ones you have to stick with because those are the ones that will never let you down, those friends are the ones YOU can't lose and you have to take care of them because they have value in your life.







I chose to include this specific picture because it relates to Franny's situation. she is ill, but if there's a "we" in her life, she will get better, as it explains in the picture. That "we" is the support all of us need to move on and go forward.








I'm really glad about how the book ended. Franny is stronger than ever. She has a strong character and that's what matters in life. Franny has showed me that you don't have to give up and that even in the toughest moments in your life, you have to keep your chin up and, the most important, never lose hope because with hope you will find a solution to the problems you thought were impossible to solve. At the end, Franny and Fleabrain reconcile and they go back to being friends again. I really hope that Franny fully recovers from Polio and that she can go back to normal as she wanted. I'm also glad that medicine has advanced because now it is less probable that someone with Polio dies or never fully recovers than back to the time when Franny lived. I think that medicine is one of the biggest progresses that our world has been successful with. Something I learned with this book is that friendship can make a stormy weather feel like a calm sunset in the sea shore. It also taught me that I have to value my friends because one day I may lose them, and I will not like how that feels. I really recommend this book because it teaches you many things, like the importance of friendship and little moments.