Bug lives in Venice, California, with her mother and her older brother. She is excited that summer is just around the corner, until her mother breaks the bad news. Instead of having her brother Danny hang out with her and watch her while her mother is at work, she is going to be meeting someone new. Danny has informed everyone that they must now call him Daniel and that he needs his "space." Whatever that means, Bug is now forced to hang out with Frankie from Ohio.
Frankie is coming to spend the summer with his uncle Philip who lives in the apartment above Bug. He doesn't seem interested in anything Bug likes to do. He, for sure, doesn't what anything to do with going to the beach - Bug's favorite place in the whole world.
Bug's mother works in the mayor's office and is spending lots of extra time there because of a rash of killings by a criminal everyone is calling the Midnight Marauder. Bug learns that Frankie has been following reports of the murders and has made it his goal to catch the Midnight Marauder. Well, maybe that sounds interesting. Bug even suggests she might know who is responsible. She's always been terrified of the Hermit who lives in a huge, scary house down the street. Together maybe they can catch him.
This is also the summer that Bug is about to learn some family secrets that will leave her wondering about the world and her place in it. Author Gayle Forman ventures into the world of middle grade fiction with FRANKIE & BUG. Her characters leap off the page and her view of some of life's complications in the mid 1980s will have readers captivated. This book kept me up late reading and wanting to know more.
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