TY - BOOK AU - CLEMENTS, ANDREW TI - Frindle SN - 0-689-81876-9 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Aladdin Paperbacks KW - children's realistic fiction novel. KW - explores how creativity and community N2 - Frindle by Andrew Clements is a 1996 children's novel about Nick Allen, a creative fifth-grader who invents a new word, "frindle," for a pen to challenge his strict language arts teacher, Mrs. Granger ER -