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Findle原版小说，非常适合7年级学生阅读，有配套的原版练习题，MP3和小测试题，非常有益学生提高阅读。
可以是老师用，也可以自己在家阅读做题，非常好玩的一本书，也有教育意义。
Frindle
By Andrew Clements
About the Book
“If there is any justice in the world,” Kirkus Reviews wrote in its rave review of Frindle, “Clements may have something of a classic on his hands. By turns amusing and adroit, this first novel is also utterly satisfying.” Nick Allen, a fifth grader with a gift for creative ideas and a taste for troublemaking, coins a new word for pen—Frindle. All he wanted to do was play a little trick on Mrs. Granger, a legendary language arts teacher with a passion for proper vocabulary. After all, she told him that ordinary people determine which words end up in the dictionary. But when his new word sweeps the nation, Nick fears that he might have created a monster. “Readers,” School Library Journal predicted, “will chuckle from beginning to end . . . Outstanding and witty.”
About Andrew Clements’s Books
Nora wants to prove that test scores—even high ones—can be misleading. Nick wants to push his teacher’s language lesson to its ridiculous extreme. Cara wants everyone to know what’s really going on in her classroom. Jack doesn’t want any of his classmates to know what his father does for a living. Greg is on his way to being a millionaire—with a little help from his fellow students. Dave and Lynsey have engaged their entire fifth-grade class in a no-talking contest.
Andrew Clements’s stories are set firmly in the most essential of childhood settings, school, but the reason they strike such a chord with middle-grade readers goes deeper than this straightforward platform. Clements takes the everyday reality of grade-school life and turns it into an exceptional laboratory for observing the development of a person’s character. The works of Andrew Clements give readers insights and strategies for rising to the challenges of their classrooms.
The students who populate Clements’s tales are both highly interesting and appealingly imperfect. They have grand ideas or astonishing talents, yet they make mistakes or fail to turn in their homework. The parents and teachers who surround these students are carefully depicted with an empathetic eye to the adults’ points of view. The results are grade-school worlds pulsing with energy, style, and a light touch of humor: worlds that are profoundly, identifiably real.
And, in Clements’s realistic schoolyards, his young characters begin to discover the people they hope to someday become. Whether exploring the validity of test scores as measures of human worth, confronting prejudice, or observing how individuals come to terms with their own special talents, Clements’s honesty is uncompromising, his eye unflinching. Best of all, no matter how difficult a situation he presents to them, Clements is always optimistic that his characters can learn, change, and grow. They are testaments to the good that can come from imperfect situations and the potential that can be realized in the most surprising moments.
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