Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000

Meet Frankie Pickle...the kid with the world's most amazing imagination!It takes him on adventures. It helps him save the day. And sometimes...it gets him into trouble.If he wants to move up in rank with the other Possum Scouts, Frankie must win the model car derby known as the Pine Run 3000. He dreams up the slickest speedster ever, but when he tries to build it on his own, his creation crashes and burns! Will Frankie get left in the dust before he even gets to the starting line?

Eric Wight is an author, illustrator, and animation director. His first book, My Dead Girlfriend (Tokyopop), was nominated for the 2008 Best Graphic Novel of the Year Award by the Young Adult Library Services Association. In 2004, Wight won the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award for his illustration work in The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, the comic book adaptation of Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.  Eric lives in Chalfont, Pennsylvania with his family.  Visit him on the web at ericwight.com.