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.

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 ...

2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 5 Revealed 3 Watch: Next On Stage Season 6 Finalists Revealed Nicholas Allen decides to invent a new word: from now on, a pen will be known as a ...

Author Andrew Clements includes a line at the end of all of his replies to fan mail: “I truly loved hearing from you and I’m glad you’ve discovered that reading is a great way to spend some time.” ...

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