By Andrew Clements
Audio, 1 hr 49 minutes (I think, 2 CDs)
Simon & Schuster Audio Unabridged edition June 2009
Rating: Go read it! (Or listen to it!)
Synopsis:
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.
Robot's Review:
I am glad I decided to give this one a chance! I had seen the actual book before while volunteering at the Scholastic Book Warehouse sale. (Did you go? It was too good!) I might have seen the title before but thought it sounded kind of silly. I mean, really....a kid calling a pen "frindle"?
But it's so much more than just that! It's the reasoning behind it. And it's just an entertaining story. I am SO glad I gave this book a try and have recently finished listening to another of Andrew Clements books, The Report Card (review to come). So glad I found another author who's got lots of books to read!
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