Parents need to know that About Average, by bestselling children's author Andrew Clements (Frindle), deals with bullying -- specifically mean-spirited verbal teasing. Protagonist Jordan's school has ...

Andrew Clements' beloved book Frindle—which tells the story of a boy who invents a new word for "pen"—was meant to inspire young readers. But at Woodbury, Dummer, Prairie View, and Haskin, it seems to ...

Read Across America Day is the perfect time to celebrate the magic of books and inspire a lifelong love of reading in kids. But why stop at just one book? Let’s turn reading into an adventure — one ...

The Cam-plex Heritage Center Theater will host a live performance of the play Frindle based on the Y.A. novel by Andrew Clements, with curtains set to open 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Tickets for the ...

After a little internet sleuthing, Josh discovers that Mr. N is actually Nicholas Allen, who gained national notoriety as an elementary-schooler for inventing a new word for “pen”: frindle.

What is a “frindle”? It’s Nick’s super-popular, newfangled word for a pen, and the cause of a battle of wills with his fifth-grade English teacher, who suggests the lexicon is absolutely ...

Parents need to know that The Frindle Files, written shortly before author Andrew Clements' death in 2019 and illustrated by Brian Selznick, is a standalone, generation-later sequel to his '90s middle ...

A band I loved listening to. They were local heroes in South Norfolk. They were Alex Schulver, Sue Carey, Mick Morley, Jimmy Bobby, Clive Frindle (Clare), Bernard Shaw and Barry Dye. Jimmy, Mick and ...

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 ...