Nick's classmates really like the idea and soon, every child in the fifth grade starts using the word frindle. From this experience, Nick learns that individuals get to determine what words mean, and when he comes across a gold pen in the street, he decides to give a "pen" a new name: frindle. One day, in an attempt to forestall, Nick decides to question Granger on where each word in the dictionary comes from. At the start of fifth grade in 1987, he is unhappy because his English teacher is the no-nonsense Mrs. Nicholas "Nick" Allen is a class clown who has been formulating creative schemes throughout grade school. According to Clements, the book originated from the thought, "What would happen if a kid started using a new word, and other kids really liked it, but his teacher didn't?" Plot It was the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award, which is granted by the Children's Literature Association to the best English-language children's book that did not win a major award when it was published twenty years earlier.įrindle was Clements's first novel all of his previous works had been picture books.
|y .Frindle is an American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Aladdin in 1996. |a Teacher-student relationships |v 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. : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996. |a New York, NY : |b Aladdin Paperbacks, |c 1998. |a Frindle / |c Andrew Clements pictures by Brian Selznick. Stony Creek/Willoughby Wallace Juvenile Fiction North Stonington/Wheeler Children's Fiction North Branford/Atwater Children's Fiction Madison/Scranton Children's Picture Books Hamden/Brundage Community Children's Fiction East Haddam/Moodus Downstairs Juvenile Fiction
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