![]() ![]() When Nick’s distraction technic earns him an extra assignment, an oral report on the dictionary, he decides to experiment by creating a new word. His worst classroom behavior–and how everything gets started–is that he tries to distract the teacher at the end of class before she can assign homework. Granger.īut Nick is, overall, a well-meaning, respectful kid. He does, after all, cause a bit of an uproar in his small town after he gets all of the fifth-grades to begin calling their pens “frindles,” much to the apparent chagrin of his English teacher, Mrs. Needless to say, I love the word-related concepts Andrew Clements so cleverly introduces to kids in his book Frindle.īut, as a parent, I did start off with a concern that the main character, Nick Allen, might be a troublemaker. ![]() ![]() I was an English major, took multiple linguistics classes (for fun), and can’t wait to hear the latest Grammar Girl podcast every week. ![]()
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