Clements (Frindle) introduces 12-year-old Ted, a likable lad who reads multiple mysteries each week—and insists on solving each midway through the book. (Then he reads the second half to see if he was ...

Chicago’s Griffin Theatre Company has announced a limited five-performance-only run of the company’s most popular touring show for young people, FRINDLE. Based on the novel by Andrew Clements, 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 ...

Nicholas Allen decides to invent a new word: from now on, a pen will be known as a "Frindle"! Before long, to the dismay of his Language Arts teacher Mrs. Granger, Nick’s word begins to spread. This ...