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 ...

One of my all-time favorite memories was about a road trip. My family was driving somewhere, I think it was Disneyland, and we decided to listen to the audiobook of Frindle by Andrew Clements. Despite ...

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 ...

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 ...