Frindle

Frindle-
By, Andrew Clements


This is a story about a made up word. It started at Western elementary school; it started there by a boy named Nick, Nicholas Allen. He was in the fifth grade when he made up this word “Frindle”. He was in Mrs. Granger’s class for grammar. Mrs. Granger loved words. Nick was famous for tricking teachers out of making him do homework. He could not trick Mrs. Granger though she just gave him more homework everyday. When he had to do a dictionary assignment he found out that the words in the dictionary did not just happen, he found that they came from people who made up the words so, he decided to make up his own word. One day when he was walking with his friend she dropped her pen and instead of saying here’s your pen he said here’s your frindle.
Each day in school he called pens frindles. Then he took his friends to the store one at a time to buy a pen and told them “this is a frindle”. Soon everyone was saying the word frindle instead of pen. Mrs.Granger was angry about this and made the kids stay after school to write 100 sentences of “I’m writing this sentence with a pen” but instead they would write in Frindle instead of pen. Then it was like a chess game with the students against the staff.
In the end Nick won. The word frindle traveled around the world. People from his town went traveling and shared the word and on and on. People in his town started making frindle things to sell, like frindle shirts and pens and hats. Nick became famous and rich, the town became known for being the place where the word frindle started. In the end Nicholas Allen sent Mrs. Granger an engraved pen that had written on the pen, “you can call this you want” and that meant a big deal to Mrs. Granger.
I liked this book, it has three stars. I did not like that Mrs. Granger was mean and they had to stay after school. I did like that Nick made up a word and, I liked that this book was silly in that he wrote frindle for pen. I learned from this book that you can make up anything you want to. I think you can also learn how to be respectful a bit from this book.