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Reviewer: Buraq K. '12

The lesson to be learned from reading Frindle is that it is possible to make up a word! Nick makes up a new word "frindle" for pen. Nick's teacher, Mrs. Granger, is very strict, and does not want the children to use the made up word for pen. Nick appears on T.V. for an interview because of all the commotion that his word "frindle" is causing. Will the word "frindle" make its way into the dictionary? Is Mrs. Granger really hoping that Nick's "word" won't become a "real word"?

Fall 2004

The book Frindle by Andrew Clements is a great story. It is about a kid named Nick Allen.  He is one of the trouble makers at Lincoln Elementary.  He has a new teacher named Mrs. Granger who is upset with the dictionary.  Just to make her mad he invents a new word, Frindle.  In his world Frindle means pen.  Nick gets all the kids to say it and Mrs. Granger gets really mad.  Read the book to find out the ending.

Spring 2003

Reviewer: Lea T. '10

Do you ever feel that you need to make the world different or make school fun for you and your friends? Well, that's what Nick feels through his years at school so he decides to make them a little more interesting. He makes up a new word "frindle" [meaning pen]. This did not go over well with his English teacher, who orders Nick and the other children to stop saying the "fake" word --  but people all over the world are saying it so how can Nick stop that? Find out by reading Frindle.
 

Have you ever tried to make up your own word? Nick Allen has. Now kids all over the world are using his word, and adults are trying to stop them. Will his word be added into the dictionary?

Frindle, by Andrew Clements is a fictional story set in the small town of Westfield, New Hampshire, a quiet little town, but not for long. The townsfolk are getting excited about the new word kids at Lincoln Elementary are using. There calling a pen, an ordinary word, a new, strange name. They're calling it a "frindle." What's a frindle, you might ask. The kids at Lincoln Elementary said that too, the first time they heard it being used. Now it's frindle mania all over the USA. Will frindle become a real word? Read this book to find out.

Once again, I am reviewing another Andrew Clements book. But I can't help myself. They're all so good! This one has to be my favorite. I've read it at least ten times. I would recommend it to all my friends because everyone will like this book.

Fall 2002

I recommend it because I enjoyed it and I think other people will too.

Fall 2002

Clement's Frindle is about a boy named Nick Allen who decides to make a new word for 'pen'. The word he chooses is "frindle." Nick is a trouble maker and gets everybody in the school to use the word frindle. His teacher, Miss Granger, is against changing the word pen to frindle because it is not in the dictionary. She gives him a sealed envelope and tells him to sign it. She says not to open it and she will give it back to him when the commotion is over.

Many years later when Nick grows up and is very succesful a package and letter arrive at his doorstep. The hand writing on the letter looks like a 5th grader's. He realizes that it is his own hand writing. He remembers the envelope he signed with Miss Granger in the 5th grade. Nick opens the package next to the letter. It is a red dictionary with a page marked. He flips to the marked page, looks and sees  the word frindle. He glances at the note and sees that it says, 'You've won.' The note also says that Miss Granger has always been on his side but every good story has to have a bad guy.

This book is really great!!          

Summer 2002

Nick learns some interesting facts about how words are created and then he gets an idea ... a frindle. Why call a pen, a pen?  Why don't people call it a frindle instead?  When he starts calling a pen, a frindle, he totally annoys his teacher and his mother. Frindle spreads all around the country!  To find out what happens in the end, you will have to read the book. It is a very good book and it's easy and fast to read.

Spring 2002

Frindle is about a ten-year-old boy with glasses and red hair who dislikes his teacher because she always has a dictionary with her and uses it to make a point about words. One night, while he is doing his homework, he thinkst of his teacher and her dictionary. He wonders how he can get her back for giving him so much homework. He makes up a new word for a pen, "frindle," to annoy his teacher. He uses the new word at school and encourages the other kids to use it too. Soon the whole school is using "frindle," then the town, then the state, and the whole United States. His teacher is angry with him, at least that is what he thinks. To find out if his teacher stays mad or if the boy gets in trouble, read Frindle.

I really like Frindle because, at the end of each chapter, I was left in suspense.

11/8/99