Slippers at Home

Serious attempts to get a grumpy student teacher to crack a smile yield unexpected results in Jake Drake, Class Clown by Andrew Clements, illus. by Dolores Avenda$o, the fourth title about Jake in Continue reading »

Originally serialized in the Boston Globe, Clements's (Frindle; The School Story) Continue reading »

In Slippers at Home , Clements (Frindle ) introduces the chubby hound hero of his new series and owners Mommy, Daddy, Laura Continue reading »

If the motto of the day is ``Think globally, act locally,'' this luminous picture book helps inculcate that environmentalist precept. Clements urges readers to count from one earth (``only one'') Continue reading »

Trying to aggravate a tough language-arts teacher, a fifth-grade boy invents a new word for pen: ""frindle."" Soon, the whole country is using it. ""Dictionary lovers will cotton to this mild Continue reading »

Clements's (Frindle ) offers an uncharacteristically thin novel introducing a boy who excels at athletics and academics—and is a whiz at Continue reading »

With subtlety and authority, Clements (A Week in the Woods ) explores the plight of extraordinarily intelligent Nora, who, determined to avoid being singled out, Continue reading »

A showdown between an 11-year-old and his teacher occurs at the start of an annual environmental program when they spend a week in a wooded state park. Ages 9-13. Continue reading »

A wise angel who has seen it all delivers an anecdotal account of the night that was ""different from all the others--ever,"" the night that ""the great truth came to the earth once and for all."" In Continue reading »

Clements (Extra Credit) delivers another rock-solid school story that will resonate with middle graders. Like his older brother, Mitch, sixth-grader Clay is habitually in trouble, and he can't wait Continue reading »

When a colt is concerned about incessant rain, his mother reassures him with an inventive new take on an old tale. Ages 4-8. Continue reading »

Clements (Frindle ) introduces 12-year-old Ted, a likable lad who reads multiple mysteries each week\x97and insists on solving each midway through the book. (Then he reads the second half to see if Continue reading »

Clements’s third book in the Benjamin Pratt & the Keepers of the School series finds the titular character fighting to prevent his school from being torn down and replaced by an oceanfront amusement Continue reading »

Clements's (The Report Card ) latest school-centered novel introduces Hart Evans, the most popular boy in school ("Hart could have charmed the hairnet Continue reading »

The sequel to Big Al, Big Al and Shrimpy by Andrew Clements, illus. by Yoshi, explores the friendship between the mismatched fish; an unlikely turn of events signals certain change in the smaller Continue reading »

In a starred review, PW called this book about a 12-year-old aspiring author a "standout. Indeed a 'school story,' this is at heart a tale about Continue reading »

C lements's (Lunch Money ) latest thoughtful school tale opens as fifth-grader Dave researches a report on India. He is Continue reading »

A 15-year-old boy discovers that he has turned invisible overnight and becomes determined to take control of the situation and of his own destiny. "As preposterous as the teen's Continue reading »

Clements (Frindle ) successfully bridges two cultures in this timely and insightful dual-perspective story. When Abby learns that her teachers want her to repeat Continue reading »

In a starred review, PW said that Clements "effectively draws a parallel" between Jack getting to know his janitor father, John, and John's Continue reading »

In this breathlessly verbose tale, a rash of compound nonsense words infects an elementary school. Student Lulu exhibits the first symptom when she complains, ""My homework is all higgledy-piggledy. Continue reading »

Identical twins Ray and Jay Grayson prepare for yet another year of being perceived as “two peas in a pod, two ducks on a pond, two spoons in a drawer,” when their family moves from Continue reading »

In Jake Drake: Teacher's Pet by Andrew Clements, the third title in this series about an earnest and likable third-grader, Jake's attempts to turn his goody-two-shoes reputation around are aided Continue reading »

Four of Andrew Clements's most popular books have been gathered into a boxed set, called School Days. The Janitor's Boy; The School Story (which both garnered starred reviews in PW); Frindle and Continue reading »

In the latest on-point school story by Clements (The Losers Club), compulsive collector Grace is thrilled when her grandfather says she can keep the 27 boxes of buttons she discovers in his Continue reading »

Clements hits no false notes in this beguiling sequel to Things Not Seen . Narrator Gwen left her West Virginia home two years earlier to live with her ailing Continue reading »

Clements (Room One , reviewed below) sets out, with mixed results, to explain the concept of one million through a roundup of number factoids and an accumulation Continue reading »

Precision and poetry characterize this singular volume, which introduces the hand tools in a wood- and metal-working shop as the builders construct a carousel. Each spread presents one implement, Continue reading »

Clements (Lunch Money) cleverly combines haiku and an endearing canine protagonist in this jaunty tale, written primarily from the pooch's perspective. Continue reading »