Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Air from Other Planets | 2000 | Andrew Clements | Buy |
| 2 | The Handiest Things in the World | 2010 | Andrew Clements | Buy |
Andrew Clements was primarily known as a fiction writer, but he produced a handful of non-fiction titles during his career. These books reflect the same approach he brought to everything he wrote for children: clear language, a respect for the reader’s intelligence, and no unnecessary padding.
The non-fiction titles represent a small part of his overall output and are less widely circulated than his novels and chapter books. They tend to appear in school and library collections aimed at younger readers who are building reading skills alongside subject-area knowledge.
For readers who have come to Clements through Frindle or his school stories, the non-fiction titles offer a glimpse at a different facet of his work, one that shows he was always more interested in communicating clearly than in fitting any particular genre.