Frindle

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Frindle

• By Andrew Clements

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Chapter 1 Nick

• Nick is a kid who will get your teachers side
  tracked easily. He got one of his to teachers to
  have a beach day and they did. He does stuff to
  get other people into trouble.

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Chapter 2Mrs.Granger

• Mrs. Granger is one of the meanest teachers in
  the 5th grade.
• She makes you look up 35 words in the dictionary
  and you have to copy them down for homework!

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Chapter 3The Question

• Nick asked a question on how the dictionary
  started just to delay the class. But instead he
  has to write a report on the dictionary since he
  asked that question.

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Chapter 4Word Detective

• Nick had to do a report that was due the next
  day. He also had to copy all 35 definitions from
  the dictionary for homework. Nick couldnt figure
  out what to write.

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Chapter 5 The Report

• Nick had to do his report. He was nervous to do
  it in front of the class. So he did the report
  and it almost took the whole class period. But
  Mrs. Granger stopped him and she passed out the
  homework for that night.

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Chapter 6The Big Idea

• Nick and his friend Janet walked home together
  one afternoon and as they were walking they found
  a pen on the street. So Nick picked it up and he
  took it to school the next day and he said that
  he found a frindle.

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Chapter 7Word Wars

• Everybody signed an oath and they had to use the
  word frindle now and not pen. So Mrs. Granger was
  getting mad and said that if they keep using the
  word frindle then they have to stay after school
  and write. So everybody in the class used it and
  they had to stay after school.

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Chapter 8Mightier than the Sword

• The photographer went to the class to take class
  pictures. The 5th grade pictures were taken last.
  So when they were about to take the 5th grade
  class picture, Nick told all the students to
  bring a frindle and hold it up when the
  photographer took the shot. The teachers werent
  very happy after that.

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Chapter 9Chess

• Mrs. Margaret Chatham was the principal for the
  Lincoln Elementary School. So she wanted to talk
  to Nicks parents and she wanted Nick to be there
  too when se went to talk with them. So around
  630 she went to Nicks house and his parents and
  her talked about the 5th grade class picture.
  Mrs. Chatham wanted Nick to play chess.

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Chapter 10Freedom of the Press

• Judy Morgan was a reported for the Westfield
  Gazette and she came into Nicks school. Mrs.
  Granger didnt really like Ms. Morgan. Judy
  Morgan asked the students about the word frindle.
  The class told her and they had a conversation
  about it.

The Westfield Gazette.
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Chapter 11Extra!Extra!Read All About It!

• The Westfield Gazette was delivered to 12,297
  homes post office boxes. Mrs. Granger said
  something and the reporter put it on the
  newspaper. Mrs. Chatham is mad at her now because
  she said all kinds of things about the class.

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Chapter 12Airwaves

• The Westfield Gazette was published and everybody
  in the high schools and junior high all have been
  using the word frindle instead of pen. Nick got
  to go on television and talk about the frindle.
  Nick sold frindles for 3 weeks and earned 2,250.

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Chapter 13 Ripples

• The word frindle wasnt used in Lincoln
  Elementary anymore. Bud who worked at a factory
  made frindle baseball caps. 22 people got the job
  for the factory. Everybody got at least 1 word
  wrong on their spelling test each week.

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Chapter 14Inside Nick

• Nick had changed. Mrs. Granger even noticed he
  changed too. Frindle is used more and more now
  in the past 10 years.

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Chapter 15And The Winner Is

• Nick was a junior in college. Nicks frindle
  trust fund had made Nick rich. Nick wrote Mrs.
  Granger a note and she wrote him a note too. Nick
  thought that Mrs. Granger really wasnt that mean
  after all!

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the end!lt3