Frog City and the Racing Frogs is a novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 written by Julian Patrick. The book was released to provide Racing Frogs

Racing Frogs

Racing Frogs is a "Quick Fix" Massively multiplayer online game developed and run by Wacky Web Fun Ltd. in association with Iogen Ltd. as an accompaniment to the book 'Frog City and the Racing Frogs' by Julian Patrick...

 trainers with unlimited access to the Frog Trainer's VIP zone. A second book, the Frog Trainer's Handbook

Frog Trainer's Handbook

The Frog Trainer's Handbook is the second book by Julian Patrick made to provide access to the VIP Zone in the computer game Racing Frogs. It is described as the "indispensable guide to Racing Frogs."-Features:The Frog Trainer's Handbook contains:...

, also serves this purpose.

Plot summary

Frog City and the Racing Frogs centres on Todd Tinpot, a frog who needs to win Superfrog in order to avoid being evicted from his home. However he has never trained or raced before. He gets some help from Boris at the gym but can never seem to do well in races. Sly's henchmen almost kill him in one of the races and, as this resulted in Todd missing three races, Todd got a free entry into Superfrog. Todd knew it would be hard to win so, together with Gecko, he times each route to find out which is best. Todd and Gecko are right and, on the day of the race, Todd takes the route they planned, wins the race and stays in his home

Main Characters

• Todd Tinpot: A young frog who needs to win the next Superfrog race or else be evicted from his home.
• Boris: One of Todd's friends. He started racing three days before Todd.
• Cleopatra: Another of Todd's friends.
• Sly Spawn: Son of Victor Spawn. He is Todd's racing rival and later tries to make Todd lose his job.
• Victor Spawn: Sly's dad. He plans to unleash Pike into Frog Pond so frogs will stay in his new resort, Las Mega.
• Mrs. Tinpot: Todd's mother. Has gone insane after Todd's father's disappearance.

Minor Characters

• The Fat Toad: A storyteller who tells of Frog Pond's history and that of Frogjuice.
• Gecko: A lizard who teaches Todd several key skills to help him win Superfrog.
• Mr. Tinpot: Todd's dad. He is kidnapped when spying on Victor for the police.