- New Words, Fiction, Teacher-student relationships, Schools
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.
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Classical in form, warm, contemporary and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Andrew Clements
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- Listening Library, simon&schuster childrens publishing division, Perfection Learning Prebound
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780613050142
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“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.”
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