The Word Warriors
A short chapter book called The Word Warriors about a group of girls who set about to make a new word. Perhaps starting with a dictionary definition. The word is frindle, and the definition is for a pen, and at the end
The year is 2010, a boy finds the word
pen (arch.) See frindle.
he chewed on the end of his frindle, looking up another word flips to frindle, finds
“attributed to Judith Stamson, ca 1994”
The next chapter is in an Ohio junior high school and Judy starts a word.
the dictionary as time machine.
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