Nick is a generally good kid who is famous for launching time wasters in his classroom. It has been great entertainment for the kids, but a problem for the teachers. Most of the time, he has gotten away with it. enter 5th grade language arts teacher, Mrs. Granger.
She's probably seen and hear it all in her career. She looooooves the dictionary. When Nick attempts to delay the inevitable homework assignment by asking a question, she turns the tables and makes him do it as a research paper! While writing it he discovers that words exist because the people are in agreement that they have a certain meaning. With this small idea and noticing a pen in the road, Nick comes up with naming it a "frindle." This begins a chess game and war of the minds that includes the school, a news reporter, David Letterman, and kids all over the country.
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