Frindle-
A Game of Chess
Nick
Meet the
Characters
Book Summary
This story is about a boy named Nick who made up his own word. Throughout each chapter we find out how his teacher, principal, parents, class, school, community, and country reacted throughout each scene.
Mrs. Granger
Frindle
- has a love of language and the dictionary!
"Who says dog means dog?"
In the beginning...
The First day of school Nick was nervous about meeting Mrs. Granger.
We are rooting for Nick during his trials with Mrs. Granger over changing the name of a pen.
Read Frindle to find out what happens to Nick and the fate of his creativity. The ending comes quite by surprise!
Nick tried to get out of completing homework and instead was assigned the task of completing a report about where words come from (origin)
Nick got a creative idea one day to change the name of a pen to a... FRINDLE! See how this impacts not only his 5th grade school year, but the rest of his life.
