Frindle: By Andrew Clements

 This book is about of group of students who begin to call a pen a frindle.  The teachers do not agree with this and instill punishments for anyone using the new "made-up" word.  The students argue that this is not fair because technically every word in the dictionary is made up by someone.  In the end, they end up getting their new word added to the dictionary and the teacher who was the most against it reveals she was only against it to stip up awareness of what was happening.  

I probably would not use this in my classroom because it is for a much higher grade level than I plan on teaching.  If I did use it in a higher grade, I would use it to talk about word origin and language.