Summary Of Andrew Clements's Frindle

The realistic setting of the novel starts out in a small town down south called Little Bend in Colorado but progresses to up north in a well-known town called Dover in Vermont. The main character, Cody Laredo, has a perfect life. He’s a great quarterback on his high school football team, he might be able to get a full college scholarship, and he’s dating the prettiest and smartest girl in town, but all his luck changes. He hurt his leg preventing him from playing sports, and his girlfriend, Clea, moves away to a boarding school in Vermont. When he thinks all his bad luck is over, he finds out that Clea went missing in Dover. Cody’s life gets turned

Richard Frethorne arrived in Virginia around Christmas in 1622 on the Abigail, a ship overloaded with passengers and armor, but little food. The Abigail arrived ten months after raids by the Powhatan Indians destroyed crops and killed hundreds of English settlers, so the passengers on the Abigail knew that they were repopulating a war-torn colony. Frethornewas sent to Martin’s Hundred, a settlement especially hard hit by the Powhatans. In March and April 1623 Frethornewrote four letters, three to his parents and one to Mr. Bateman.

Holm. It was a book far beyond my reading level, but the cover was pretty--which justified my reading it. It was the biggest book I had ever picked up. Although I struggled to finish the novel, it became the source of my realization. I connected with Penny--the main character--in a way that was foreign to me. Penny and I were both from culturally diverse backgrounds, she struggled with acceptance in the same way that I was coming to terms with. This newfound love for reading gave me a new insight. I realized that being ashamed of who I was and how I spoke limited my potential. From that moment, I decided to actively engage in my education. No longer would I be the girl that would politely decline to read out loud. No longer would I be the girl who was laughed

The inevitable had happened; I, as a small child, was demanded to read. A little antisocial human being launched into a world of, at first, difficult words and lengthy phrases. While words and literacy were forced into my mind, I had reluctantly begun the adventure to enjoy and accept the art of literature. Later however, my hopes and dreams were crushed to pieces by a gruesome teacher with an interesting form of a so called “grading policy.”

The story of Beowulf is an ancient one, and one that has been passed down for generations. The ideals and themes are traditional and its message is clear throughout the entirety of the epic poem. Beowulf is told from the third person omniscient point of view, his conflict was always what one would call “the bad guy” or “the villain,” and though he died in the end, he won gold and victory for his kingdom; all bad guys defeated. John Gardner, author of Grendel, decided to take the classical story of good and evil, and tell a new story from the villain’s perspective. Grendel explores varying literary elements which exposes the character of Grendel to readers along with various themes represented throughout each page.

The novel “Killing Mr. Griffin” is about a group of high school students from Del Norte High who decide to scare their strict English teacher but ends up in a suspenseful accident. Mr. Griffin is probably one of the strictest teachers ever. He won’t accept anything late, not even from the class president Dave Rutters; he won’t help Betsy Cline when she doesn’t understand an assignment; and Mark Kinney had to beg for a second chance in his class. When Mark’s best friend Jeff makes a careless comment about wanting to kill Mr. Griffin, he begins to make a plan to scare him.

Throughout the novel Grendel by John Gardner, the main character Grendel is searching for answers about life, most importantly the meaning of life. He is confused with how he wants to view life and searches for some reason to why he exists. He turned too many for these answers; his mother, man, and the dragon, but no one could provide Grendel the answer he so desperately sought, all just pushed him to the idea of existentialism.

First published in 1971, Grendel, written by John Gardner, elaborates on the beast from the classic epic poem Beowulf. Grendel, a large beast in the land of the Danes, has been engaged in a twelve-year long war against the humans. Gardner’s book expounds upon the origins and life of Grendel and why he acted like he did throughout Beowulf. In Grendel, the main character meets and talks to the Dragon, who gives him advice and winds up having a greater impact than either of the two characters had expected. Throughout the book, this conversation between the two characters leads to the Dragon putting a charm on Grendel, Grendel killing more humans, and it helps to illuminate the theme of monsters and humans in the book.

Once they arrive to the library for detention they are instructed by the principal, Richard Vernon, to sit quietly for approximately eight hours and each write an essay about who they think they are. He randomly checks on the students during

She added a new group to the book club. This group was just reading science passages before because Ms. J needed to find an interesting book on level for this group. The students made a paper booklet for their books and wrote the questions that were posted on the board and their answers for that book on a different page. So the first real page in the book would be the questions for chapter one the next page would be where the students recorded the questions and answers for chapter two, and so on. The new book added was named Summer of Riley. This novel follows the story of an eleven year old who has a dog named Riley that they are trying to save from being put to sleep by the law enforcement for chasing livestock. This raises a lot of interesting questions for the students including how to lawfully go about protesting a law, which is quite interesting to hear their conversations about it because they would never be in the position of William but they apply the story to their lives, which was fascinating. Ms. J really fosters the love of reading in her class, which I have really loved to

setting takes place in a small village consisting of about three hundred people. On June

As humans, do we consciously form our own identities? After all, one is rarely who they aspire to be. Take, for example, John Gardner’s character Grendel. Although Grendel seems to intentionally perpetuate his wretched state of being, it is also clear that this process creates, or is the product of some sort of internal struggle between what he considers to be the “two dark realities, the self and the world” (Gardner 47). For many individuals, including Grendel, existence appears to be nothing more than a never-ending series of conflicts, mostly between the actual state of things and our idealistic perception of what they should be. These conflicts, whether realized or not, generate a great deal of emotional and psychological turmoil. This idea is present in nearly every religion and school of philosophy and has been given many names throughout history, but the more recent technical term for this flaw in human thought is “cognitive dissonance”.

J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has become one of the most popular children’s series in the world over the past decade. Through these books children and young adults alike have delved into a fantastical world in which they explored the problems that their protagonist, Harry Potter, has faced. In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the sixth book of the Harry Potter series, Harry dealt with the challenge of proving to his peers and professors that Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape were no longer trustworthy. Even so, Harry failed to realize that the author of the notes in his Advanced Potion-Making book was corrupt. In this book, J.K. Rowling uses point of view, style, and irony to demonstrate the need for people to be more analytical

Twelve-year-old Gilly steals for the sake of her family. Her dad is a cobbler who does not make much money which causes them to live in an old boot. After receiving her third “check” for stealing from royals, Gilly is sent to Fairy Tale Reform School. FTRS is no ordinary reform school because it is run by Cinderella’s formerly evil stepmother, Headmistress Flora. The teachers at the school are also former villains such as Professor Harlow, Snow White’s Evil Queen, Professor Wolfington, Little Red Riding Hood’s Big Bad Wolf, and Madame Cleo, Ariel’s Ursula. All the teachers have been reformed into good, caring people rather than mean villains. During her stay at FTRS, Gilly manages to become a hero. She does so by saving Professor Harlow from

The school he attends when he is a little older is a school by any means, but there is great turmoil. Often the older boys pick on the younger ones and while this may be brought to the attention of the director (the principle, headmaster etc.) the older boys would be punished but it would be so overlooked that as soon as they were finished being punished, they would return from their beatings and give them back tenfold to the young boys who told on them. This section is actually one of my favorite parts.