Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle.
Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero.
His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.
Book Group Guide:
Book Reviews:
The Horn Book (Starred Review): "Will have readers smiling all the way through...hilarious."
Kirkus Reviews (Pointered Review): "A captivating tale - one to press upon children, and one they'll be passing among themselves."
Book Awards:
- USA: Arizona Young Reader Book Award Nominee
- USA: Battle of the Books Reading List
- USA: Battle of the Books Reading List
- USA: Black Eyed Susan Book Award (MD)
- USA: California Young Reader Medal Nominee
- USA: Capitol Choices List (DC)
- USA: Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (AR)
- USA: Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best
- USA: Children's Crown Award Nominee
- USA: Christopher Award
- USA: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Master List (VT)
- USA: Family Fun Magazine - Best Kids Books
- USA: Garden State Children's Book Award Nominee (NJ)
- USA: Georgia Children's Book Award
- USA: Golden Sower Masterlist (NE)
- USA: Great Stone Face Children's Book Award (NH)
- USA: Horn Book Fanfare
- USA: Judy Lopez Memorial Award Honor Book
- USA: Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List
- USA: Land of Enchantment Children's Master List (NM)
- USA: Maine Student Book Award Master List
- USA: Massachusetts Children's Book Award
- USA: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (MN)
- USA: Nevada Young Readers' Award
- USA: North Carolina Children's Book Award
- USA: Nutmeg Children's Book Award Nominee (CT)
- USA: NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
- USA: Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award
- USA: Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner
- USA: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
- USA: Prairie Pasque Award (SD)
- USA: Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (IL)
- USA: Sasquatch Reading Award (WA)
- USA: Sequoyah Children's Master List (OK)
- USA: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List (FL)
- USA: Texas Bluebonnet Master List
- USA: Utah Children's Book Award
- USA: Virginia Young Readers List
- USA: William Allen White Children's Book Award (KS)
- USA: Young Hoosier Book Award (IN)
About the Author:
Andrew Clements (born 1949) is an American author of books for children. Clements grew up in New Jersey and Illinois, United States. He worked as a teacher for seven years after college. He started his literary career by writing the text for picture books, and went on to write children's novels.
His first novel was Frindle, which still remains one of his best-known works. Most of his novels' covers depict a person, usually a child, holding something up to the reader. Clements currently lives in Westborough, Massachusetts, with his wife Rebecca and their four children.
