Author: Hannah

Clement’s Books

Frindle (1996)
The Laundry News (1998)
The Janitor's Boy (2000)
The School Story (2001)
The Jacket (2002)
Things Not Seen (2002)
A Week in the Woods (2002)
The Report Card (2004)
The Last Holiday Concert (2004)
Lunch Money (2005)
Things Hoped For (2006)
Room One - A Mystery or Two (2006)
No Talking (2007)
Things That Are (2008)
Lost and Found (2008)
Extra Credit (2009)

Resources:
www..andrewclements.com
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/145100-when-we-read-we-decide-when-where-how-long-and
http://www.ducksters.com/biography/andrew_clements.php

Andrew Clements.

He likes to write in a shed behind his house where there are no distractions.
He says he writes his books "one word at a time".
Clements has a Master of Art in teaching.
He taught creative writing to high school students at a summer workshop. This is where he found out he liked kids and teaching.
Andrew has four kids of his own.
He started out writing picture books.

Andrew Clements

COMPETENCY GOAL 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts. 4.07 Compose fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using self-selected and assigned topics and forms (e.g., personal and imaginative narratives, research reports, diaries, journals, logs, rules, instructions).
COMPETENCY GOAL 1: The learner will make observations and conduct investigations to build an understanding of animal behavior and adaptation. 1.02 Observe and record how animals of the same kind differ in some of their characteristics and discuss possible advantages and disadvantages of this variation. f

“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible to experience an instant sense of freedom and privacy is anywhere you open up a good book and begin to read. When we read silently, we are alone with our own thoughts and one other voice. We can take our time, consider, evaluate, and digest what we read—with no commercial interruptions, no emotional music or special effects manipulation. And in spite of the advances in electronic information exchange, the book is still the most important medium for presenting ideas of substance and value, still the only real home of literature.”
-Andrew Clements