num_pages: 248
description: When twelve-year-old Frankie Joe's mother is sent to jail he is uprooted from his home in Texas to live with the father he has never met his father's wife and his father's four legitimate sons in Illinois. Frankie Joe is miserable. Trying to adjust to his blended family proves too much to bear so Frankie Joe hatches a plot to escape on his bike back home to Texas. For that he needs money and so Frankie Joe's Freaky Fast Delivery Service is born. His deliveries win new friends a place in the rural Illinois community and a sense of achievement. But his planned escape is destroyed by a heartbreaking betrayal and Frankie Joe needs all of his incredible resilience and the loving support of his new family to survive the devastating loss.
language: English
title: Freaky Fast Frankie Joe
publisher: Holiday House