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Frindle is a book about a young boy who invents a word.
That may not sound like a great premise for a book – but I can assure you it is. This was a favorite read aloud in my third-grade classroom. And it inspires creative thinking and conversations about the power of words.
Everyone knows 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. Frindle doesn’t belong to Nick anymore. All he can do now is sit back and watch what happens!
