'Will have readers smiling all the way through.hilarious.' - 'The Horn Book', starred reviewĪbout the Author Andrew Clements (1949-2019) was the author of the enormously popular Frindle. 'A captivating tale - one to press upon children, and one they'll be passing among themselves.' - 'Kirkus', pointered review

Brian Selznick's black-and-white illustrations enhance the humor in this unforgettable story. This quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words will have readers inventing their own words. All he can do now is sit back and watch what happens. But frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. Granger would like Nick to put an end to all this nonsense. It doesn't take long for frindle to take root, and soon the excitement spreads well beyond his school and town. From now on, a pen is no longer a pen - it's a frindle. 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. To make matters worse, she's also a fanatic about the dictionary, which is hopelessly boring to Nick. Granger, the language arts teacher, has X-ray vision, and nobody gets away with anything in her classroom. 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. An imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words.īook Synopsis Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. |y .i58313084 |i 36796001662320 |l folj |s - |k |u 82 |x 2 |w 2 |v 57 |t 104 |z 08-13-09 |o l |f CD CHILDREN |a FICTION Clements, A.About the Book What if one day you decided to stop calling a word like pen 'pen' and started calling it something else-like 'frindle'? When Nicholas Allen does just that, and encourages all of his friends to start using the new word, his experiment turns the town upside down. |a Teacher-student relationships |v Fiction. |a Teacher-student relationships |v Juvenile fiction. |a 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.

|a New York : |b Simon & Schuster Audio, |c p2009.

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