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.

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 ...

My family was driving somewhere, I think it was Disneyland, and we decided to listen to the audiobook of Frindle by Andrew ...

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 ...

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

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 ...