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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of a dictionaryaround on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves out of his control.  hgcslibrary | Nov 29, 2009 |  Everyone knew that Nick was good at making the teacher forget homework. However his new fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Granger, was not so easily fooled. Nick is a trouble maker but in a good way for the kids! When Nick finds a pen in the street everything changes. A pen is no longer a pen, it's a frindle! The battle between Mrs. Granger and Nick begins. If you read this book you will find out all about language. We think you should read this book because it is funny and exciting. This book is also an award winner. The story makes a good read aloud for students aged seven years and up. ISOCS | Oct 27, 2009 | Nick is not the smartest boy at school, or the worst, but he is good up stirring up controversy. When his mean language arts teacher forces Nick to do a report on how words get into the dictionary, he decides to take it a step further and demonstrate the process. He begins calling the word 'pen' by the word 'frindle' and soon gets the entire school behind him. His teacher won't give in, but neither does Nick. Eventually, the entire town and even the country are swept up in the frindle craze. The book ends 10 years later to show what happens not just with the word, but with Nick and the teacher who taught him the greatest lesson Nick ever learned. This is a surprisingly touching story! prkcs | Oct 15, 2009 | in this book the boy named Nick was always day dreaming and his teacher is very EVIL!!!!! and wants every 1 to memorize a Dictionary because every 1 in that class is having a test on that and Nick didn't Practice so he failed and then the teacher asked Nick why he Failed, and Nick said that his pen Friendle made a mistake. so now every 1 is saying it and he is not happy about it... but soon he gets used to the name and he becomes really popular in his class. (  ) moniabegum | Sep 22, 2009 | Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it. From Goodreads (  ) sriches | Jul 10, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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Is Nick Allen a troublemaker?
He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.
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