Frindle is a great realistic fiction book for students! Nick Allen is in the fifth grade and has Mrs. Granger for language arts. Mrs. Granger is a stickler for words- she loves the dictionary. While Nick is in Mrs. Granger’s class, he learns a lot about how words are created- and decides to create his own word- frindle. Nick starts out by just having his friends use the word, but then the whole school catches on, and then the whole town. Mrs. Granger wants it all to stop, but the word frindle is catching on everywhere- and it is too late.
I would use this book as a book club book for my students. I would break my class up into groups and one group would read Frindle by Andrew Clements. I would have them read a chapter or two and then come back together as a group and talk about what they have read, make predictions for what is to come and discuss how they or anyone else they know relates to the characters in the book.
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