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Ten-year-old Nick Allen has a reputation for devising clever, time-wasting schemes guaranteed to distract even the most conscientious teacher. His diversions backfire in Mrs. Granger's fifth-grade class, however, resulting in Nick being assigned an extra report on how new entries are added to the dictionary. Surprisingly, the research provides Nick with his best idea ever, and he decides to coin his own new word. Mrs. Granger has a passion for vocabulary, but Nick's (and soon the rest of the school's) insistence on referring to pens as "frindles" annoys her greatly. The war of words escalates--resulting in after-school punishments, a home visit from the principal, national publicity, economic opportunities for local entrepreneurs, and, eventually, inclusion of frindle in the dictionary. Slightly reminiscent of Avi's Nothing but the Truth (1991), this is a kinder, gentler story in which the two sides eventually come to a private meeting of the minds and the power of language triumphs over both. Ages 9-12. Choose from simplified and traditional Chinese characters.

每个人都知道，葛兰洁老师拥有“透视眼”，没人逃得过她的法眼。这还不是最糟的，她对“词典”的狂热简直无人能及。尼克觉得很不可思议，天底下竟有这么无趣的人！
  尼克偶然间发现一篇文章，讲到文字的奥秘和来源，他灵光乍现，暗中拟定一个伟大的计划：他要发明一个“新字”。由此引出出乎预料的轰动，给尼克带来引以为傲的经历。