Andrew Clements, a schoolteacher turned children’s author whose first novel, “Frindle” — about a mischievous fifth-grader who coins a new word for “pen” — was an unlikely bestseller ...

Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary ... redheaded wordsmith at the center of Andrew Clements’s best-selling novel “Frindle,” published in 1996 and set in 1987.

Twenty-eight years after the late Andrew Clements introduced his iconic debut novel Frindle, Random House Books for Young Readers will posthumously publish its follow-up, The Frindle Files ...

Andrew Clements, Author, illus. by Chris Blair. S&S $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-689-86687-6 Clements (Frindle ) introduces 12-year-old Ted, a likable lad who reads multiple mysteries each week—and ...

Prolific children’s author Andrew Clements, best known for his popular middle grade novel Frindle, about a fifth-grader’s plan to invent a new word, died on November 28 in West Baldwin ...

Instead, he insists on chalkboards, handwritten homework and reading from a “miserable little grammar book ... word for “pen”: frindle. “Frindle,” Andrew Clements’s warmhearted ...

My family was driving somewhere, I think it was Disneyland, and we decided to listen to the audiobook of Frindle by Andrew Clements. Despite all of us being "too old" for the book, we were in ...

Clements (Frindle) introduces 12-year-old Ted, a likable lad who reads multiple mysteries each week—and insists on solving each midway through the book. (Then he reads the second half to see if ...