Frindle by Andrew Clements

Frindle, a comedy by Andrew Clements for middle school students, tells the story of a boy who changes the name of a 'pen' to 'frindle'. It started as a harmless prank to annoy his teacher, but things start spiraling out of control and the media starts going crazy. Things might not end as smoothly as his ideas from past years, and Nick isn't sure what to do. Even if he wanted to, he couldn't really stop people using 'frindle' instead of 'pen' since the name-change has spread much farther than his school.

Frindle reminded me a bit of Avi's 'Nothing But The Truth', but I liked Frindle's ending better.

Frindle was an enjoyable read with a satisfying ending that's somewhat unexpected.