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.

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 ...

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 ...