Status
Available
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Description
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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Publication
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (1998), Edition: Reprint, 112 pages
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Honor — 1999)
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 1999)
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 1999)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1999)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1999)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1999)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 1999)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Winner — Grades 4-8 — 1999)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Winner — 1998)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Children's Fiction — 2000)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 4-8 — 1998)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2000)
Sasquatch Book Award (Nominee — 1999)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1999)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Youth — 1999)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1999)
South Dakota Children's Book Awards (Winner — 1999)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2000)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Bluestem Award (3rd Place — 2015)
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Nominee — 1999)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)
Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature (Honor Book — 1997)
Christopher Award (1997)
Nevada Young Readers' Award (Nominee — 1999)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1999)
California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 2000)
Phoenix Award (Winner — 2016)
North Carolina Children's Book Award (Winner — 1999)
Rhode Island Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1998)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-6 — 1999)
Flicker Tale Award (Nominee — Picture Books — 2001)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 1999)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (Intermediate — 1997)
Illinois Reads (3-5 — 2013)
Language
Original publication date
1996
Physical description
112 p.; 5.13 inches
ISBN
0689818769 / 9780689818769