She’s stuck at Grandad’s with her annoyingly nerdy brother Joel for a whole week while her parents swan off to the Arctic. Things get worse for Frankie as soon as they arrive and she realises there’s no phone signal and grandad has no wi-fi! This is unbearable news for Frankie, who is forced to accept – when Grandad is kidnapped – that she is just going to have to go on a big quest with lots of silly fantasy creatures.

Not only is she stuck at Grandad’s for a whole week while her parents swan off to the arctic, now she’s discovered that there’s NO WIFI anywhere in the house! Chris Smith is the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Daily Show (the Book)" and "Till The End" (with C. I’ve not read a middle grade for 24 years and although I’m a lot older now I enjoyed every second of this book it made me feel like a child all over again. Our list includes some of the world’s favourite authors, illustrators and licensed brands, such as Eric Carle, Helen Oxenbury, Nadia Shireen, The Snowman, Doctor Who, Roald Dahl, Tom Fletcher, Jeff Kinney, Rick Riordan, Robin Stevens, and Jacqueline Wilson to name but a few. It is YA (young adult) but don't let anyone tell you these books can only be enjoyed by or purely for youngsters.Our mission is to inspire children to feel they can be and do anything, and to create readers for life. Puffin is an imprint of Penguin Random House, the world’s number-one publisher representing a vibrant community of publishing houses marked by unparalleled success. Then she finds a secret door in the bedroom which leads to the attic and then everything changes, Frankie doesn't like fantasy games because that is what her mum and dad produce and that was what her friends at school had picked on her about. Frankie is twelve and all teen angst, glued to her phone, her brother is a geek and this cannot be happening. Forget what you think you know about fairytales as ‘Frankie Best hates Quests’ turns that on its head.

Joel – Frankie’s annoying nerd brother who spends all his time playing computer games like Elf-Quest and just generally being really super annoying. Frankie did have big plans to watch YouTube and eat pot noodles that weekend but it looks like she’ll just have to go on an epic mega-dangerous quest instead . That's where he met Greg James, and in between messing about on the airwaves the pair created the bestselling Kid Normal series. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The relationship between Frankie and her geeky younger brother Joel is drawn in a believable way, I believed in Frankie as being someone into YouTube and modern life and I liked the humour that peppers the text (which Anderson's illustrations really help to draw out). We’ve re-named Puffin Virtually Live so that it’s easier for new teachers to discover it as part of Puffin Schools and to acknowledge that the show now premieres on show day, rather than being streamed live. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.