Frindle

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536402858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Nicholas Allen is not a troublemaker -- he's just creative. When he decides to liven things up in Mrs. Granger's fifth grade language arts class, he comes up with the greatest plan yet. He invents a new word for a pen -- frindle. It doesn't take long

Frindle

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781442013339
Category : Schools
Languages : en
Pages : 105

Book Description
Fifth-grade language arts teacher Mrs. Granger comes to regret her lesson that language is controlled by human beings when Nick Allen begins a wildly successful campaign to rename the ballpoint pen. Reprint.

Frindle

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780689806698
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105

Book Description
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

Room One

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442462256
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you lose the school, you lose the town. But the mystery that has Ted's full attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window of the Andersons' house as he rides past on his paper route. The Andersons moved away two years ago, and their old farmhouse is empty, boarded up tight. At least it's supposed to be. A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don't seem to be related. But...

The Report Card

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442462205
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109

Book Description
Nora Rose Rowley is a genius, but don't tell anyone. Nora's managed to make it to the fifth grade without anyone figuring out that she's not just an ordinary kid, and she wants to keep it that way. But then Nora gets fed up with the importance everyone attaches to test scores and grades, and she purposely brings home a terrible report card just to prove a point. Suddenly the attention she's successfully avoided all her life is focused on her, and her secret is out. And that's when things start to get really complicated....

The Lemonade War

Author: Jacqueline Davies
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547237650
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Evan Treski, who is people-smart, and his younger sister Jesse, who is math-smart, battle it out through competing lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn one hundred dollars. Reprint.

No Talking

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416995196
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
In No Talking, Andrew Clements portrays a battle of wills between some spunky kids and a creative teacher with the perfect pitch for elementary school life that made Frindle an instant classic. It’s boys vs. girls when the noisiest, most talkative, and most competitive fifth graders in history challenge one another to see who can go longer without talking. Teachers and school administrators are in an uproar, until an innovative teacher sees how the kids’ experiment can provide a terrific and unique lesson in communication.

The Friendship War

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0399557628
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
A fabulous school story about fads and friendship from the bestselling author of Frindle. This is war. Okay--that's too dramatic. But no matter what this is called, so far I'm winning. And it feels wonderful. Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything--and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting and trading and even fighting over . . . buttons?! A fad that might get her in major trouble and could even be the end of Grace and Ellie's friendship. Because Ellie's not used to being one-upped by anybody. There's only one thing for Grace to do. With the help of Hank, the biggest button collector in the 6th grade, she'll have to figure out a way to end the fad once and for all. But once a fad starts, can it be stopped? "A fun, charming story about fads and the friendships that outlast them."--Booklist "On-point."--Publishers Weekly

Troublemaker

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416949321
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.

Lunch Money

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442462191
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Meet Greg Kenton, billionaire in the making. Greg Kenton has two obsessions -- making money and his long-standing competition with his annoying neighbor, Maura Shaw. So when Greg discovers that Maura is cutting into his booming Chunky Comics business with her own original illustrated minibooks, he's ready to declare war. The problem is, Greg has to admit that Maura's books are good, and soon the longtime enemies become unlikely business partners. But their budding partnership is threatened when the principal bans the sale of their comics in school. Suddenly, the two former rivals find themselves united against an adversary tougher than they ever were to each other. Will their enterprise -- and their friendship -- prevail?