Granger sends him a new copy of the dictionary, recently updated to include new words, including the word frindle. The word frindle spreads across the nation, and Nick thinks through the trouble that this one scheme has caused.

Frindle starts to gain national attention, and a family friend purchases the merchandising rights to the word. The school principal decides to visit Nick's house to end the use of frindle, but the situation is beyond Nick's personal control, and the word's usage cannot be curtailed. Granger makes any students who are caught saying frindle stay after school and write lines, but this proves to be a problem, as this causes almost every student to stay after school. Nick's classmates really like the idea and soon, every child in the fifth grade starts using the word frindle. From this experience, Nick learns that individuals get to determine what words mean, and when he comes across a gold-colored pen in the street, he decides to give a 'pen' a new name: frindle. One day, in an attempt to forestall, Nick decides to question Granger on where each word in the dictionary comes from. At the start of fifth grade in 1987, he is unhappy because his English teacher is the no-nonsense Mrs. Nicholas 'Nick' Allen is a class clown who has been formulating creative schemes throughout grade school.

According to Clements, the book originated from the thought, 'What would happen if a kid started using a new word, and other kids really liked it, but his teacher didn't?' Plot įrindle was Clements's first novel all of his previous works had been picture books. It was the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award, which is granted by the Children's Literature Association to the best English-language children's book that did not win a major award when it was published twenty years earlier. Frindle is a middle-grade American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by the company Aladdin in 1996.

Frindle by Andrew Clements