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Frindle
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A children's novel by Andrew Clements.Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now Nick's in fifth grade, and it looks like his days as a troublemaker are over.Everyone knows that Mrs. Granger, the language arts teacher, has X-ray vision, and nobody gets away with anything in her classroom. To make matters worse, she's also a fanatic about the dictionary, which is hopelessly boring to Nick. But when Nick learns an interesting tidbit about words and where they come from, it inspires his greatest plan yet: to invent a new word. From now on, a pen is no longer a pen — it's a frindle.It doesn't take long for frindle to take root, and soon the excitement spreads well beyond his school and town. His parents and Mrs. Granger would like Nick to put an end to all this nonsense. But frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. All he can do now is sit back and watch what happens. | |
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No Such Thing as Bad Publicity | |
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No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: All the publicity just helps to strengthen and spread Nick's word.invoked | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD / My God, What Have I Done?: Nick, but Mrs. Granger talks him out of it. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Nick gets "punished" early in the book when he tries to nudge Mrs. Granger into talking about the dictionary so that she'll forget to assign that day's homework. She instead assigns him a speech about the origins of the dictionary due the next day, and Nick turns it into the longest filibuster he has ever done. Nick also tries to test the blackbird's ability to fool predators with its chirp in class. Sure enough, his teacher gets confused, and mistakenly punishes his friend Janet. Luckily, the two make up, and later more fun is had in confusing their teacher with chirps, which she decides to just ignore. Nick later considers the spread of "frindle" to be this. | |
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Neologizer | |
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Neologizer: Nick, in possibly one of the only times it has actively affected the plot. | |
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Out-Gambitted | |
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Out-Gambitted: On the first day of class, Nick asks a question about the dictionary in the hopes that Mrs. Granger will answer it instead of giving the class the homework assignment. Instead, she tells him to look up the answer and write a presentation on it as an extra homework assignment. Nick makes his oral report as long as possible, in order to stall the day's lesson. Mrs. Granger teaches the day's lesson in record time, and still manages to give the class homework. | |
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Future Slang | |
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Future Slang: The Distant Epilogue shows us that "Frindle" made it into Webster's Dictionary as a slang for pen. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: When she gets over her initial overreaction, Mrs. Granger realizes that she has ended up in the villain role and decides to play it up to help "frindle" along. Nick too when he realizes just how wide an effect his pranks have had. Cue Heroic BSoD. | |
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Holding the Floor | |
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Holding the Floor: Nick turns an oral report into an epic, lesson-stalling filibuster. | |
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Stealth Mentor | |
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Stealth Mentor: Mrs. Granger to Nick, encouraging him to continue with his ideas (though within reason of course). | |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word | |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word: In addition to the title, "quiz" is brought up in the book as another example of one. | |
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Streisand Effect | |
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Streisand Effect: All attempts to stop Nick's new word from spreading simply help it along. As it turns out, this was invoked by Mrs. Granger. | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: Mrs. Granger likes to come up with interesting punishments, such as sticking a student's chewing gum on a card and pinning it to the student's shirt for the rest of the day. | |
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Writing Lines | |
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Writing Lines: To enforce her ban on the word frindle, Mrs. Granger makes them stay after school and write "I am writing this with a pen" 100 times. The students make a game of seeing how many times they can get away with changing the sentence to "I am writing this with a frindle." | |
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Forbidden Fruit | |
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Forbidden Fruit: Mrs. Granger's ban on the word frindle makes it all the more appealing to the students. | |
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Reverse Psychology | |
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Reverse Psychology: Mrs. Granger bans the word "frindle" for the express purpose of ensuring it spreads. | |
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No Such Thing as Bad Publicity / int_be7ded9f | |
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Stealth Mentor / int_be7ded9f | |
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Writing Lines / int_be7ded9f |
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