书名：Frindle我们叫它粉灵豆
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数830L
作者：Andrew Clements安德鲁·克莱门斯
出版社名称：Atheneum Books for Young Readers
出版时间：1998
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780689818769
商品尺寸：13 x 1 x 19.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：112（以实物为准）

安德鲁·克莱门斯（Andrew Clements），美国备受欢迎与敬重的校园小说作家。他创作的校园小说系列向读者呈现了一个个鬼灵精怪、富有想象力和创造力的儿童形象。故事常让人莞尔一笑，继而陷入沉思，热泪盈眶。轻松有趣的故事引起孩子们的好奇心和阅读兴趣，更能让大人在阅读之余，深深省思孩子在成长的过程中真正需要的东西。
Frindle《我们叫它粉灵豆》讲述了一个充满了创造力的孩子尼克和一个让人尊敬的老师之间斗智斗勇的故事。本书着重的是“创造性思考”和“文字的力量”，透过一个五年级学生充满想象力的想法，挑战教育之中大家习以为常的观念，过去十多年来掳获众多读者的心，从此之后，“粉灵豆”已是每个人心中理所当然的词汇。

推荐理由：
1.美国校园小说第1人安德鲁·克莱门斯代表作；
2. 入选全美儿童阅读计划，荣获克里斯多福奖、家长评选大奖等数十项少儿类图书奖项；
3. 英文原版，字体较大，纸质护眼，阅读舒适。

精彩书评：
“克莱门斯把学校的生活描写得活灵活现，当代作家无人能出其右。”——《纽约时报书评》

“无比杰出，令人眼睛为之一亮。全书诙谐感人，俏皮机智，将让读者从头一路咯咯笑到尾。”——《学校图书馆期刊》

“这肯定会是一本大受欢迎的小说，不分领域，不分年龄的读者，一定都将大声赞扬。”——《书单》

“为了要激怒一位很难搞的语文课老师，一个五年级的男生发明出一个代表“笔”的新词，万万没想到这个词竟很快传遍全国各地，每个人口中都说着这个词……你一定会爱上这一部亲切好看的小说。”——《出版者周刊》

“擅长创造议题、风靡读者的校园故事大师的精彩代表作品。”——《科克斯评论》

“能搞怪的学生碰上了“厉害”的老师，既有有趣的矛盾，又有碰撞的精彩，而老师育人的深意和对孩子的情感在小说的后一刻让人怦然心动。”——儿童文学作家 李丽萍
From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.
Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school — and he’s always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he’s got the inspiration for his best plan ever... the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn’t belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there’s nothing Nick can do to stop it.

学校里的每个人都知道，五年级的葛兰洁老师拥有“透视眼”，没有人能在教室里逃过她的法眼。这还不是糟的，她对“字典”的狂热简直无人能及，尼克觉得很不可思议，天底下竟有这么无聊的人？然而，尼克偶然间发现一篇有趣的文章，谈到文字的奥秘和来源，他突然灵光乍现，暗中拟定一个伟大的计划：他要发明一个“新词”。从现在开始，一枝笔再也不叫“笔（pen）”——而叫“粉灵豆（frindle）”。
过不了多久，“粉灵豆”深入大家心中，这股风潮快速席卷整个学校和城镇，大家都兴奋得不得了。尼克的爸妈和葛兰洁老师不希望他做这种无厘头的事。但事情没这么简单，“粉灵豆”再也不只专属尼克一个人，此刻他只能退居幕后，静观其变……
Nicholas Allen is not a troublemaker — he’s just creative.
When he decides to liven things up in Mrs. Granger’s fifth grade language arts class, he comes up with the greatest plan yet.
He invents a new word for a pen — frindle.
It doesn’t take long for frindle to take root and soon the excitement spreads beyond the school and town and unleashes a series of events that rapidly spins out of control.

安德鲁·克莱门斯，美国备受欢迎与敬重的畅销作家，著作超过五十本。克莱门斯为儿童创作图画书，也为青少年写小说。他著名的作品是也是他的第1本小说《我们叫它粉灵豆─Frindle》，一出版即畅销，长踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，在美国已销售超过两百万册，获奖数十次，并售出德、法、意、英、日、韩等十余国版权。
克莱门斯从中学时代即开始写诗，他曾有一首诗被英文老师评为“太有趣了，这可以出版！”这开启了他后来的作家之路。他还曾当过中学教师，为歌手创作歌曲，也曾在出版社担任主编工作。目前则是专职作家，住在美国马萨诸塞州。
Andrew Clements is the author of the enormously popularFrindle. More than 10 million copies of his books have been sold, and he has been nominated for a multitude of state awards, including two Christopher Awards and an Edgar Award. His popular works includeAbout Average,Troublemaker,Extra Credit,Lost and Found,No Talking,Room One,Lunch Money, and more. He is also the author of theBenjamin Pratt & the Keepers of the School series. He lives with his wife in Maine and has four grown children. Visit him at AndrewClements.com.

If you asked the kids and the teachers at Lincoln Elementary School to make three lists—all the really bad kids, all the really smart kids, and all the really good kids—Nick Allen would not be on any of them, Nick deserved a list all his own, and everyone knew it.  
Was Nick a troublemaker? Hard to say. One thing’s for sure: Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them.  
One time in third grade Nick decided to turn Miss Deaver’s room into a tropical island. What kid in New Hampshire isn’t ready for a little summer in February? So first he got everyone to make small palm trees out of green and brown construction paper and tape them onto the corners of each desk. Miss Deaver had only been a teacher for about six months, and she was delighted. ”That’s so cute!”  
The next day all the girls wore paper flowers in their hair and all the boys wore sunglasses and beach hats. Miss Deaver clapped her hands and said, “It’s so colorful!”  
The day after that Nick turned the classroom thermostat up to about ninety degrees with a little screwdriver he had brought from home. All the kids changed into shorts and T-shirts with no shoes. And when Miss Deaver left the room for a minute, Nick spread about ten cups of fine white sand all over the classroom floor. Miss Deaver was surprised again at just how creative her students could be.  
But the sand got tracked out into the hallway, where Manny the custodian did not think it was creative at all. And he stomped right down to the office. The principal followed the trail of sand, and when she arrived, Miss Deaver was teaching the hula to some kids near the front of the room, and a tall, thin, shirtless boy with chestnut hair was just spiking a Nrf volleyball over a net made from six T-shirts tied together. The third-grade trip to the South Seas ended. Suddenly.