Houghton Mifflin the Nation's Choice : Theme Paperbacks on Level Theme 4 Grade 5 Frindle

from KFBruck

This is a wonderful book that can be read at a variety of age groups. It's about a boy who decides he wants to come up with a new word. So he comes up with the word frindle. After it catches on throughout the school he convinces his skeptical teacher and the word is added to the dictionary!

from alaina.loescher

This is a fun read. My favorite part about this book is that it advocates for taking the things one learns in a classroom and extending them out to make real change. This is the kind of thing that all teachers hope that their students would do. I also love that, even after Nick gets sick of all t...

from villemezbrown

What a delightful surprise! Andrew Clements spins a clever and touching yarn about a mischievous fifth grader whose petty notion to rename pens as "frindles" to peeve his strict teacher pits him in a battle of wills with her and the school administration and garners more attention than he would ...

from shillson

Nick Allen is starting fifth grade and has a reputation for coming up with creative schemes to distract even the best teachers. However, his new teacher, Mrs. Granger, manages to always be one step ahead of him. When Nick tries to pull another one of his famous tricks on his vocabulary loving tea...

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Frindle by Andrew Clements is a fast moving book that you can read in a day. I loved this book and even laughed out loud at some of Nick's antics. He would be a blast to have in class, but I am not sure that all the teachers out there would enjoy it in quite the same way. Although Nick likes to g...