Frindle

Frindle

By Andrew Clements

133 ratings 142 reviews 232 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 4 - 6R5.416232
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.
This quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words will have readers inventing their own words. Brian Selznick's black-and-white illustrations enhance the humor in this unforgettable story.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
ISBN-13: 9780689837036
ISBN-10: 0689837038
Published on 10/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 128

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Frindle is about a kid named Nick Allen. Nick see's a pen and recalls it a frindle. So when he tells his friends about it everybody makes it a perminent word. Everybody says it infront of their teacher and she goes crazy. That is a review of frindle.

I'm reading this at school right now it looks like everybody says the author is amazing!

Xavier Xavier

Frindle is such a good book.I read it for a class group thing l loved it so much.I want to red more of his books they are so good .

Lexys Lexys

I love to read so i read friendle and i love this book

i love this book so much :)

I really enjoyed reading the book "Frindle". I thought the main character, Andrew, was really funny and he reminded me of a student I had in class before.

i loved this book so much it was amazing and the kid is so cute and like yeah i like loved this book so like yeahhh.

Great Book!!! I totally recommend this book to anyone. Great about a kid who wants to put a word into the dictionary! Can't spoil it but great!!!!

my teacher read this book 2 me she said she has read it a millon times and its apreety good book !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Itis funny because first when Nick goes to the store and ask for a black frinddle the lady looks confused.

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