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Frindle - 2000 Kids' Picks (original 1996; edition 2000)

by Andrew Clements

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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.
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Title:Frindle - 2000 Kids' Picks
Authors:Andrew Clements
Info:Aladdin (2000), Paperback, 112 pages
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Frindle by Andrew Clements (1996)

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This is another classic book I read in middle school. I remember reading this book with my dad and we often still talk about it. This book is great for curious students who like to know the meaning of things and use their imagination. ( )
  ergoldie | Apr 3, 2024 |
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Frindle is a story about an imaginative and slightly mischievious boy named Nick Allen. Nick is in 5th grade at Lincoln Elementary School and decides to create a new word, "Frindle." Frindle, the new word for pen, catches on in his school and ends up gaining major attention. This new words challenges Nick's Language Arts teacher, Mrs. Granger, and she tries to enforce rules on the use of it. This book explores creativity, imagination and the power of words in an interesting way. ( )
  sarahkrupich | Jan 21, 2024 |
Nick's 5th grade Language Arts teacher is serious about words--she believes the dictionary is the highest authority--but Nick decides to shake up her classroom (and eventually the school, the town, the country, and the English language) by inventing a new word!

This is a short, interesting story about the power of a simple idea. Despite the Big Questions it raises about language and authority, it's not very deep. Still, a good read for habitual and reluctant readers alike. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
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  ASSG.Library | Nov 21, 2023 |
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1996
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Nicholas "Nick" Allen
Lorelei Granger (teacher)
Ginny Allen (mother of Nicholas "Nick" Allen)
Tom Allen (father of Nicholas "Nick" Allen)
Janet Fisk
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Lincoln Elementary School, Westfield, New Hampshire, USA
Westfield, New Hampshire, USA
New Hampshire, USA
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For Becky, Charles, George, Nate, and John - A.C.
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If you asked the kids and the teachers at Lincoln Elementary School to make three lists – all the really bad kids, all the really smart kids, and all the really good kids – Nick Allen would not be on any of them. Nick deserved a list of his own, and everyone knew it.
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So many things have gone out of date. But after all these years, words are still important. Words are still needed by everyone. Words are still used to think with, write with, to dream with, to hope and pray with. And that is why I love the dictionary. It endures. It works. And as you know, it also changes and grows.
"This is not an easy visit for me. We are having some trouble at school, and it appears Nick is in the middle of it."
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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.
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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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813.54Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 20th Century › 1945-1999

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PZ7.C59118Language and Literature › Fiction and juvenile belles lettres › Fiction and juvenile belles lettres › Juvenile belles lettres

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