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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of my all-time favorite memories was about a road trip. My family was driving somewhere, I think it was Disneyland, and ...

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 ...

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