Frindle

The book Frindle, written by Andrew Clements, is a book about a boy named Nick who learns some appealing information about how words are formed.Nick was known as the time-stopper, he was good as wasting time in school. One day Nick tries to pull a fast one on his teacher Mrs. Granger. They were talking about the dictionary and Nick had a brilliant idea. He asked the teacher were all the words came from, which he thought was a good question to waste time in the strictest teachers classroom and avoid homework, Nick felt this was the total "thought grenade". Well it turns out the teacher knew exactly what was going on with the little joker and had Nick do a research on how and where words come from. This created the biggest problem the school had ever had. Nick found out that anyone could create a word and with his friends and the help of everyone in school he changed the work pen to frindle. This caused a lot of trouble for Nick in school and out of school. It became a nationwide word and recognition was coming from everywhere except from the mean old teacher Mrs. Granger who highly encouraged Nick to stop with the nonsense. Well more problems arise and some good even comes from the situation, but how?
The book Frindle was a funny book to read. I would recommend reading this book to a 4th or 5th grade class that would be able to understand about words and the dictionary and maybe even do their own projects with the dictionary as well. It would be good to have students learn a little about the dictionary at the same time Nick does in the book so that they could easily follow along, and even have them create their own new word, or a create a new name for a current word. The book has a few pictures to offer a visual to the students reading the book. The easy text makes for a quick read, perfect for in class.