Josh Willett is a sixth-grader who loves biking, skateboarding and, most of all, computers. He practices coding after school and uses his laptop in every class. Every class, that is, except English.

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 about a kid's ...

In this story by Andrew Clements, there are four main characters – Nick, Mrs. Granger, Nick’s mom and Nick’s dad. Nick is in the fifth grade, is a trouble-maker and has many creative ideas. All the ...

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, on August ...

More than 25 years later, the pen of another name meets a new generation of wordsmiths. By Jon Agee Jon Agee is the author, most recently, of the picture book “My Dad Is a Tree.” There’s a moment in ...

3 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists Andrew Clements' award-winning story, Frindle, performs at the Coterie Theatre in Crown Center April 6 - May 23. The humorous story follows Nick, a ...

His best-known book, “Frindle,” posed a question about the nature of words: What would happen if you called a pen a frindle? By Richard Sandomir Andrew Clements, who mined a brief teaching career in ...

A quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of language, Andrew Clements's "Frindle," presented by the Griffin Theatre Company, comes to life on the Loeb Playhouse stage of Purdue ...