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| Plot Summary of Frindle |
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"Nick is an average kid in the 5th grade. He has a mean spelling teacher who always makes the kids use the dictionary. One day Nick's friend spots a pen on the ground and Nick starts calling it a frindle. The new word is a big hit in Nick's class and finally the whole school. People all over the world are saying the new word. Is the word a big hit, or will Nick get in trouble for it?
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Ashley Nobis , Resident Scholar
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"Nick Allen was a boy with ideas. Most of these ideas are ways to make school more fun and also to get out of homework. When Nick gets to fifth grade, he meets his match -Mrs. Granger. Mrs. Granger is the strictest teacher in the school. She can spot a kid chewing gum a mile away. She assigns long vocabulary lists. She loves the dictionary. And, what's worse, she can't be deterred from assigning homework. It'll take all of Nick's ingenuity to deal with her. Lucky, ingenuity is one thing Nick has plenty of. He wonders why the word "pen" means the thing we write with. This leads to him inventing the word "frindle." Nick fights against the dictionary loving Mrs. Granger for the right to use his new word. "
Angela Tircuit, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
- humorous
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Age 7-10
- Age 11-14
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- grade school
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
- small businessman
Age:
- a kid
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Age:
- a teen
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- small businessman
- teacher
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an above average amount
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Pacific NW
- California
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Unusual Style:
- No single main character?
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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