Frindle

Title: Frindle
Author: Andrew Clements
Genre: Fiction
Reviewer: Niki

It was 5th grade Nick Allen’s big year and he knew it too. 5th grade meant switching classes, homework, and no recess. The way they did it at Lincoln Elementary School there was two teachers for each subject except for Language Arts. There was one, Mrs. Granger and that’s were the trouble began for Nick.

Nick was in the last period of his first day of 5th grade but the problem was his last period was with Mrs. Granger. Nick felt homework coming. So the question quick shot out of his mouth “Where do words come from?” This question could’ve stop from everyone getting homework but Mrs. Granger knew exactly what Nick was doing. She back fired on him and he ended up with an oral report and vocabulary.

You may ask what this has to with the title Frindle. Nick has loads of ideas and Frindle was one of them. Mrs. Granger told the class that words are made because we say so. So he had a meeting with him and his friends. The next week he had all of the kids at Lincoln Elementary to say his new word. Frindle, Frindle his the definition of pen but wanted to start a fight with the Lone Granger. Frindle started as just a game but it ended up as after school detentions, then newspapers, and ended with national television. All of this leads to a letter from Mrs. Granger to Nick. No one knew what was in the letter and no one would know until this Frindle nonsense was over.

I would recommend this book because it’s funny and you can’t stop reading it. It is a great story and you will never know what will happen next.