 Frindle by Andrew Clements
Have you ever wondered why a "pen" is called a pen? Well, that is what Nicolas Allen thinks about. He decides to invent a new word, and from that day forward a pen would be called a frindle. The idea catches on, and soon everyone is using "frindle" to mean pen.
Andrew Clements got the idea for his books one day when he was visiting first and second grade students in Middletown, Rhode Island. He was talking to them about how words mean only what we want them to mean. In order to explain himself more clearly, he began with the example: "What if I decided to call this pen a frindle?" He just made up the word frindle on the spot in order to make his point.
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