Andrew Clements

While sick with the stomach bug last week, I took the opportunity to read the collected works of Andrew Clements. I read Frindle, A Week in the Woods, and The Last Holiday Concert. This was all in preparation for our video conference with the author. Ball State University and Simon and Schuster are sponsoring a series of these conferences, which, to my delight, are FREE! If you are interested in signing up, here is the link: http://www.bsu.edu/myvisit/

The sponsors expect 30,000 schools to participate. I'm only doing the visit with one class, since we don't have an auditorium space that would suit. The fourth grade class has read Frindle together and is now deep into The Report Card. Scholastic Book Fairs was kind enough to send a mixed box of Clement's titles so that the kids could purchase them in advance of the conference.