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Filled with rousing action and unpredictable outcomes, this wise and funny novel about the perils and privileges of free speech features a hero with a will of iron…and a heroine with a heart of gold!
Show full descriptionFrom bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.
What if one day a kid decided to invent a word? Could he do it? Could anyone stop him? That's what fifth-grader Nick Allen wonders when his teacher, Mrs. Granger, tricks him into doing an extra report on dictionaries. Lately she's been getting the better of him in class, and he'll do anything to outwit her. That's when he gets his big idea.
The action shifts into high gear when Nick resolves never, ever to use the word pen again. Instead, he'll call a pen a "frindle". Soon he has five trained operatives at work spreading the word throughout the school. They've taken the oath, too never say "pen," only "frindle" and before Nick can say "the frindle is mightier than the sword," the whole town is under his sway.
Mrs. Granger doesn't like it. She makes kids who say "frindle" stay after school and write one hundred times, "I am writing this punishment with a pen!" But there's little she can do to stop it. Because before long the word is on T-shirts, on the news, everywhere!
There's no telling how far the prank will go or how Nick will feel about it now that it's completely out of his control.