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When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical
… More »When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now Nick's in fifth grade, and it looks like his days as a troublemaker are over. Everyone knows that Mrs. Granger, the language arts teacher, has X-ray vision, and nobody gets away with anything in her classroom. To make matters worse, she's also a fanatic about the dictionary, which is hopelessly boring to Nick. But when Nick learns an interesting tidbit about words and where they come from, it inspires his greatest plan yet: to invent a new word. From now on, a pen is no longer a pen -- it's a frindle. It doesn't take long for frindle to take root, and soon the excitement spreads well beyond his school and town. His parents and Mrs. Granger would like Nick to put an end to all this nonsense. But frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. All he can do now is sit back and watch what happens.
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Add a SummaryNick is not a good kid or a bad kid or a really smart kid; Nick is an idea kid. He's also the best class interrupter in the whole school - until he gets to Mrs. Granger's 5th-grade language arts class. A simple question about the dictionaries that Mrs. Granger loves - meant to distract her from giving the night's homework - leads to an oral report by Nick on the history of the dictionary and how words are created. What at first seems like Nick's defeat soon leads to his best idea ever: He will create a word. Which is how Nick and his friends start calling their pens "frindles." Mrs. Granger refuses to accept the new word for pen, which has been quickly adopted by the entire 5th-grade class, fighting against the 5th graders every step of the way. Once the whole school gets involved though, Nick begins to realize that while he started the "frindle" movement, it's now far beyond his control.
"Ten-year-old Nick Allen has a reputation of devising clever, time wasting schemes guaranteed to distract even the most conscientious teacher diversions backfire in Mrs. Granger's fifth grade class, however, resulting in Nick being assigned a report on how new entries are added to the dictionary. Surprisingly, the research provides Nick with the best idea ever, and he decides to coin his own new word. Mrs. Granger has a passion for vocabulary and Nick's ( and soon the rest of the school's ) insistence on referring to pens as "frindles" annoys her." ( Novelist review)
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Add a CommentThis book is one of my favorite books! I've read it at least 10 times! You should too!
Isabel or Max
Interesting book!! From the beginning to the end, it was a great book !! I love this so much!! :)
Lots of humor and an everykid main character make this book highly enjoyable - although parts of the story feel smooshed together and Clements seems to do a lot more telling than showing. We hear how the story mushrooms from one news person to the next, but we don't actually see any of the national level attention. We hear that Nick goes on David Letterman, but we don't hear anything beyond that about his experiences traveling the talk show circuit and how missing school(as one would assume he must) affects his life there. Still, Frindle is a very interesting look at word origins that could inspire many curricular projects.
I think I've read this book maybe 4 times already and it never gets old. Each time, I am intrigued by the story of Nick Allen, a creative boy, and his invention of the word "frindle" to take the place of "pen". The idea was sparked by Ms. Granger, the very person who seemed to detest the idea from the start. All in all, it's a very good read for everybody!
Nick gets more than he bargained for in this classic tale
Frindle is a interesting book about Nick and his 5th grade teacher Mrs. Granger. They battle over the dictionary. Everyone knows that Mrs. Granger almost worships the dictionary. This is a fun and exciting book about a boy who is full of fun and a teacher full of words. Great book for learning the etymology of words!
Wonderful juvenile story about a enterprising young boy and his relationship with one of his grade school teachers.