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Name: Frindle
Rating: 3.461538461538 (13 reviews)
Author: Andrew Clements

From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words. Nick Allen, a troublemaker, learns some interesting information about how words are created and uses this inspiration to come up with the idea for a new word, frindle. He convinces his friends to use the new word and becomes a local hero, spreading it across the country.

First publish date: 1996

Genre: Children's Fiction/Early Readers

Authors: Andrew Clements

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