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Nick turns the classroom into a tropical paradise complete with sand and dancing the hula.
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Nick learns to make a blackbird sound, a high pitched "peep." Whenever the students made this noise, the teacher could never figure out where it was coming from.
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When Nick enters 5th Grade, he is worried about Mrs. Granger, the Language Arts teacher.
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Nick asks about the dictionary to waste time, and Mrs. Granger has him give a report to the class
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Nick finds a pen in the street and decides to name it Frindle.
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Students who use the word "frindle" instead of pen receive a detention from Dangerous Grangerous.
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Nick is becoming famous. His story appears in the newspaper, and then Nick is invited to be on TV shows
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Nick does not know it, but his dad signs a contract with Bud Lawrence. Bud will use the name frindle, and money will go into a bank account for Nick.
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Nick is back to his old self and gets them to make the food at school more appealing to students.
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Nick graduates and learns about his trust fund.
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Mrs. Granger sends Nick a brand new dictionary with the word frindle in it. She sends him her favorite maroon fountain pen and the letter he signed ten years ago.
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Nick makes a scholarship fund in Mrs. Granger's name and sends her an engraved gold fountain pen
