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Frindle story6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Pro tip: if you have an immature group of kids, don’t pick a book that can be easily misinterpreted to mean “disrespect is creative and cool and if you’re disrespectful long enough people will come around and agree with you.” I did enjoy the book, which is somewhat impressive as there is a part of me that resents Andrew Clements for the disaster that was the book club discussion of No Talking. ![]() I also greatly enjoyed the discussion of language and the ways that it informs the ways we can and do think. Granger, as she avoided the irritating black and white villain role that many JF books (and, honestly, most of Clements’ later work) cling to. I particularly like the way Clements wrote Mrs. ![]() However, overall Frindle is a very interesting story about how ideas spread and how powerful they are. While that is probably appealing to young and reluctant readers, for me it was slightly offputting how quickly one plot point was rushed to the next. Having read it for the first time many years ago, I was very surprised by how fast-paced it is. ![]() Frindle by Andrew Clements is about a boy who causes a phenomenon when a dictionary-obsessed teacher gives him a project on etymology and he ends up replacing the word ‘pen’ with the word ‘frindle.’ It’s Andrew Clements’ first book, and arguably his best one. ![]()
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