- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, New words, New words in fiction
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
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Classical in form, warm, spare and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Andrew Clements
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 105
- Publisher
- Andrew Clements, I DONT KNOW, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780689806698
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