Andrew Clements Books In Order
Publication Order of Pets To The Rescue Books
Ringo Saves The Day! | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brave Norman | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tara and Tiree, Fearless Friends | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dolores and the Big Fire | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Jake Drake Books
Jake Drake Know-It-All | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jake Drake, Bully Buster | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jake Drake, Class Clown | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Reading Program Books
Karen's Island | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Three Wishes For Buster | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bill Pickett an American Original Texas Style | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hurricane Andrew | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ham And Eggs For Jack | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Life in the Desert | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Desert Treasure | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Inventors | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Milo's Great Invention | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Real Monsters Books
Real Monsters Go for the Mold | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Things That Go Eek on Halloween | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Real Monsters Stage Fright! | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gromble's Haunted Halloween | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Slippers Books
Slippers At Home | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Naptime For Slippers | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slippers at School | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slippers Loves to Run | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Benjamin Pratt Books
We the Children | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear Itself | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Whites of Their Eyes | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Harm's Way | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
We Hold These Truths | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Things Books
Things Not Seen | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Things Hoped For | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Things That Are | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Bird Adalbert | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Noah and the Ark and the Animals | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Al | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Santa's Secret Helper | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Temple Cat | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mother Earth's Counting Book | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Billy and the Bad Teacher | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Who Owns the Cow? | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bright Christmas | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frindle | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Phillip's Birthday Book | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Music Time, Any Time | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double Trouble in Walla Walla | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Snowden and the Christmas Joy Parade | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Workshop | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hey Dad, Could I Borrow Your Hammer | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Landry News | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Look Who's In The Thanksgiving Play! | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret Father's Day Present | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mouse Family | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Janitor's Boy | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Circus Family Dog | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Kitten | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The School Story | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Jacket | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Week in the Woods | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Al and Shrimpy | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Report Card | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Holiday Concert | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Robocat | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Million Dots | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lunch Money | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Because Your Daddy Loves You | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Room One: A Mystery or Two | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Strange Day in Mayville | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Gust | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dogku | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Talking | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost and Found | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Extra Credit | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Troublemaker | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Because Your Mommy Loves You | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
About Average | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Map Trap | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Because Your Grandparents Love You | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Losers Club | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Friendship War | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Air from Other Planets | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Handiest Things in the World | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Andrew Clements was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1949. He lived in Oaklyn and Chery Hill until he was in sixth grade when together with his family, they relocated to Springfield, Illinois. He began his writing as a senior high school student in Springfield High School. His journey as an author had not been a one day event. At a tender age, he had become accustomed to reading many books. This was part of his activity during summer times together with his family where they used to spend time in a cabin in a lake in Maine. During these days, he spent his nights reading after busy fishing during the day. These quiet moments helped him to start thinking like a writer and consequently he began to read more and more. A defining moment in Andrew Clements’ journey as a writer, came when he was handed back a poem he had written by his English teacher. To what he did not expect, he had scored an A which he admits was a rare event in his teacher’s class. Additionally, the teacher went further to lavish praise on his piece of writing and even suggesting that it should be published. This was a fuel of inspiration which carried him through to Northwestern University making him to trust in his own writing ability. Occasionally at Northwestern University, he would get encouragement from his professors on his writing. He began to write on his own aside from class assignment. He took a literature major where he faired high in essays and poetry. Clements took interest in writing songs and poems, and learned how to play a guitar while in Northwestern University. However, he wrote when he felt like and did not write without an inner go-ahead spirit. He viewed writing as a hard work, which he admits even now.
Andrew Clements taught creative writing in a series of summer high school workshops. This was an avenue for him to practice as a teacher and describes it as a bitter-sweet experience with the hard work and the fun involved too. Clements graduated from Northwestern University and took one extra year for preparation as a teacher. He earned a Masters of Art in teaching at National Louis University. For seven years he taught English in public schools north of Chicago where he taught for two years in fourth grade, three years in eighth grade and another two years in high school. This was invaluable time for him to establish yearlong relationships with student and kids and a joyous moment interacting with funny bright kids. He also had the opportunity to read more and more and develop on his ideas and grow as an all-rounded writer.
In his first year as a teacher, Andrew Clements got married to his wife who had a career in professional theater. They acquired their first home and then their second, in which they had their son. In his teaching, Clements was fired and rehired several times in a rollercoaster of events. This was because of decline in children enrollment in the school, which therefore led to their firing as a “Reduction in force’’ policy. With the recurrent hire and fire, he moved together with his wife and two and a half year old son to New York where he looked for a dependable job. He wanted a stable career as a singer-song writer. It did not work out as he had wanted, but this was an invaluable opportunity for him to sit down, think and come up with great ideas as a writer. He acknowledges this as a vital discipline for any writer.
He got a publishing job in a small publishing company which specialized in how-to books where the books had photos with informative captions below the photos. His name appeared in print for the first time in a book A Country Christmas Treasury where his name appeared in the acknowledgements section as among the craftspeople of the book.
After working for about one year in the publishing company, he was invited by a friend he had met in his college days to a new company’s Children’s book launch. While working in this new company, known as Alphabet Press then later Picture Book Studio, he began writing picture book texts. He also worked as an editorial director where he interacted with talented authors, illustrators and author-illustrators. Little by little, Clements began to write his own picture books which would be a foundation for his illustrious writing career.
In 1990, he conceived an idea of what was to become his first novel. He began to write a story about a boy who makes up a new word. This story was turned into his first book Frindle, which was published in 1996. Frindle was highly successful and popular. This established Andrew Clements as a full-time writer henceforth. Clements is now a full-time writer and stays in Maine, where he used to spend his early summer days, together with his wife.
Andrew Clements’ first book, Frindle is about a boy who decides to make up a word of his own for pen. The new word is frindle, and this goes to prove the ingenuity of Nick Allen who is always coming up with new cool ideas. This word is new to his dictionary obsessed teacher and sooner that would be expected, the whole class starts to use the new word. The new word does not only spread in class but to the town like wildfire. Suddenly, Nick Allen finds himself in the media frenzy over frindle, leaving the question of whether he comes out as a hero or troublemaker.
Clements’ second book The Landry News, published in 1998 is about a fifth grade girl Cara Landry, who is having quite a rough time in school after her parents’ divorce but the worse is still to come in school, with the new teacher Mr. Larson. Mr. Larson is unpopular for handing out work sheets each morning then sitting back to read the paper. Landry whose dream is to become a paper journalist takes this time in the absence of teaching, to editorialize her own newspaper Landry News. Her lone anonymity days are now over.
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