Book 1- FRINDLE

Book 1- Frindle

Author- Andrew Clements
Pictures By- Brian Selznick

Here is something to think about while you read this book.

Who are the characters?

What is the plot?

What is a Frindle?

Do you have or have you ever had a Frindle?

Can you identify 15 words from the book to make up a vocabulary list?


Can you create 5 words, and define them to add to your vocabulary list from the book

Book 1 Review

Book 1- Frindle

Author- Andrew Clements

Illustrated By- Brian Sleznick

Nick's creative troublemaking brings his school to a standstill and causes a national uproar. The new word he's invented is sweeping the country. But he may have met his match in his fifth-grade teacher, Dangerous Grangerous.

Frindle is a word Nick makes up just to bug his fifth-grade teacher, who's a dictionary demon. This is nothing new for Nick, who has made a career out of wreaking creative havoc in school. But in Mrs. Granger he has found someone just as bright as he is, and they wage an evenly matched war of wits like a chess game.

Nick is just as determined to get everyone to use his new word as Mrs. Granger is to stop it. When their "war conference" fails, Mrs. Granger deploys her black queen (the principal), and Nick counters with his white queen (his mom). But the prank spirals out of control as the word catches on all over town, and when it spawns a national fad frenzy, Nick is in way over his head. But Mrs. Granger, who seems to have lost, may know more than she's telling.

Source: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Frindle.html

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