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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.

Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle.

Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero.

His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.


Nick是個古靈精怪的學生，他創造了一個新字叫「Frindle」來取代「Pen」。Nick創造的字「Frindle」在學校裡產生了一陣Frindle旋風，媒體還爭相採訪。

Frindle事件引起了校方的關注，尤其是老師Mrs. Granger對此事反彈極大，學生只要使用「Frindle」就會受到處罰。然而Mrs. Granger反應的背後是否有什麼隱情？此後「Frindle」的名氣越來越大，最後真的成為了一個字並收錄在字典裡。十年後Nick收到了Mrs. Granger寄來的信，但特別的是這封信是寫於十年前。究竟Mrs. Granger的信寫了什麼？Frindle事件的背後又藏著怎樣溫暖的故事？

《Frindle》是美國暢銷作家Andrew Clements的第一本作品，甫出版即廣受讀者的歡迎及喜愛。Andrew Clements的寫作風格幽默詼諧，擅長寫趣味校園故事，作品裡往往會帶出教育議題的思考。校園故事題材接近學生生活，閱讀時會引起學生的共鳴，相當適合孩子閱讀。

如果您的學生或是小孩充滿創意，身為教師或家長的我們是要選擇鼓勵還是壓制呢？在此書中Mrs. Granger做出了她的選擇，而這個決定也深深地影響了Nick。究竟Mrs. Granger做出了怎樣富有深意的抉擇呢？