Book review ; Frindle

Frindle 

By : Andrew Clements

Synopsis: 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 of 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 about it.



Review: When two of your children say "Mom, you'd really like this book. You have to read it." What do you do? You apparently end up loving the book and reading it in one day. And then you end up glad that they have given you this gift of engagement into something that you can both enjoy, from them and their little hearts.

I was honestly dreading reading a kids book at first. But soon I learned how foolish I was. This book is adorable. A shit-stirring prankster kid who is making up a new word and driving his school by storm. But then the word becomes so much more. How much can one harmless made up word change? The poor strict teacher who just wants some peace in her class just fans the fire with more fuel when she tries to slow down its growth. Who would think reading about an imaginative kid and a dictionary obsessed teacher could make you have the feels? Almost in tears and grinning is where this book left me. Oh, to be a smart mouthed trouble making 5th grader again. Or oh, to deal with quick thinking children at my age now. Or oh, how will I feel when even more time has passed looking back at certain situations that are similar to this one I read about in even the smallest ways. I hope I don't ever forget reading this book.