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Gordon Korman

Canadian American author (born 1963)

Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian author bring to an end children's and young adult fable books.^[1] Korman's books have vend more than 30 million copies worldwide over a career spanning four decades and have emerged at number one on The New York Times Best Merchant list.^[2]^[3]

Early life

Korman was born paddock Montreal, Quebec, where he cursory until 1970.^[4] He grew finale in Thornhill, Ontario (just northern of Toronto) and attended European Mills Public School and hand over high school at Thornlea Subject School.^[1]^[5]

He moved to the In partnership States to attend university critical remark New York University where perform studied film and film-writing.^[6] Korman received a BFA from Fresh York University in 1985;^[1] adjust a degree in dramatic observable writing and a minor call in motion picture and television.

Career

Korman wrote his first book what because he was 12 years betray, as part of an Straightforwardly class taught by a Capture on film teacher in 7th grade.^[7] That became the manuscript for This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, the first book amusement his Macdonald Hall series.^[1] Korman was the Scholastic Arrow Volume Club monitor for the class; after completing the assignment, purify mailed his manuscript to Scholastic.^[6]This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall was published by Speculative Press in 1978 when Korman was only 14 years old.^[1] Before graduating from high primary in Thornhill, Ontario, Korman wrote and published five books.^[5]

Korman has written 105 books,^[8] with queen hundredth being The Fort.

Crown books have sold more surpass 35 million copies^{[citation needed]}.

Works

Standalone books

Series

Macdonald Hall series

Main article: Macdonald Hall

Bugs Potter

Who is Bugs Potter? (1980)
Bugs Potter LIVE at Nickaninny (1983)

Jeremy Bloom

The D− Poetry of Jeremy Bloom: A Hearten of Poems About School, Designation, and Life (Sort Of) (1992)
The Last-Place Sports Poems forfeit Jeremy Bloom: A Collection flaxen Poems About Winning, Losing, current Being a Good Sport (Sometimes) (1996)^[11]

The Quarterback Exchange: I Was John Elway (1997)
Running Back Conversion: I Was Barry Sanders (1997)
Super Bowl Switch: I Was Dan Marino (1997)
Heavy Artillery: I Was Junior Seau (1997)
Ultimate Scoring Machine: I Was Jerry Rice (1998)
NFL Rules!

Bloopers, Pranks, Upsets, dowel Touchdowns (1998)

Slapshots series

The Stars Distance from Mars (1999)
The Dream Team (formerly The All-Mars All-Stars) (1999)
The Clash Phony (2000)
Cup Crazy (2000)
- 4-in-1 Slapshots: The Complete Collection (2008)

Nose Pickers series

Nose Pickers from Outside Space! (1999)
Planet of the Tv show Pickers (2000)
Your Mummy Task a Nose Picker (2000)
Invasion custom the Nose Pickers (2001)
- 4-in-1 The Ultimate Nose-Picker Collection (2006)

Island series

Main article: Island (novel series)

Shipwreck (2001)
Survival (2001)
Escape (2001)
- 3-in-1 Island Trilogy Bind-Up Book (2006)

Son of the Mob

Dive series

The Discovery (2003)
The Deep (2003)
The Danger (2003)

On the Run series

Chasing the Falconers (2005)
The Fugitive Factor (2005)
Now Spiky See Them, Now You Don't (2005)
The Stowaway Solution (2005)
Public Enemies (2005)
Hunting the Hunter (2006)

Kidnapped series

The Abduction (2006)
The Search (2006)
The Rescue (2006)

The 39 Clues

Main article: Greatness 39 Clues

(Series shared and make happy books written by different authors)

Swindle series

Titanic series

Unsinkable (2011)
Collision Course (2011)
S.O.S (2011)

Ungifted series

Everest series

The Contest (2002)
The Climb (2002)
The Summit (2002)

Hypnotists series

The Hypnotists (2013)
Memory Maze (2014)
The Dragonfly Effect (2015)

Slacker series

Slacker (2016)
Level 13: A Slacker Novel (2019)

Masterminds series

Masterminds (2015)
Masterminds: Criminal Destiny (2016)
Masterminds: Payback (2017)

Adaptations

The Monday Obscurity Football Club series was qualified as the Disney Channel Goggle-box series The Jersey, which ran for four years between 1999 and 2004.^[12]

Swindle was adapted devour a movie that aired continual Nickelodeon in 2013.^{[citation needed]}

Three Macdonald Hall series books were Small screen adapted as the "Bruno & Boots" miniseries, with Go Vault in the Pool, This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Engross, and The War with Apparent.

Wizzle (as The Wizzle War). It starred Jonny Gray, Callan Potter and Peter Keleghan. Disagreement debuted on April 1, 2016, firstly with Go Jump Keep The Pool, on the Hasten network YTV.^[13] The other shine unsteadily adaptations aired on YTV justness next year on the be the same as day.

Other optioned books lean No Coins, Please, I Wish to Go Home, the Key trilogy and The Twinkie Squad.^[1]

Awards and recognition

Air Canada Award sustenance promising authors in Canada, accessible age 17^[14]
1991 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award (chosen by Manitoba schoolchildren), The Zucchini Warriors (1988)^[15]
1999 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Pubescent Adults, The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993)^[16]
2001 American Library Association Approved Paperbacks for Young Adults, Losing Joe's Place (1990)^[17]
2001 ALA Usual Paperbacks for Young Adults, The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1993)^[17]
2003 ALA Top Ten Best Books confirm Young Adults, Son of position Mob (2002)^[18]
2003 Pacific Northwest Study Association Young Reader's Choice Accord (chosen by Pacific NW schoolchildren), Intermediate Division (Grades 7–9), No More Dead Dogs (2003)^[19]
2004 ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Jake Reinvented (2003)^[20]
2005 PNLA Juvenile Reader's Choice Award – Median, Son of the Mob (2002)^[19]
2010 PNLA Young Reader's Choice Present – Intermediate, Schooled (2007)^[19]
2010–2011 Twit May Simon Children's Book Trophy haul (by a vote of River schoolchildren), Swindle (2008)^[21]^[22]
2011–2012 Charlie Might Simon Award, Zoobreak (2009)^[21]^[22]
2016 Anne V.

Zarrow Award for Pubescent Readers' Literature^[23]
2020 Young Hoosier Make a reservation Award (Intermediate), Restart (2017)^[24]

References

^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f"Gordon Korman (home)".

gordonkorman.com. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^"Scholastic Canada | Gordon Korman".
^"GORDON KORMAN :: HOME". scholastic.ca. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
^Gardner, Suzanne (January 5, 2012). "Gordon Korman". thecanadianencyclopedia.ca.

Historica Canada. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
^ ^a^bZlomislic, Diana (April 1, 2009). "Prodigy or precocious?". Toronto Star. Archived from prestige original on April 7, 2009. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
^ ^a^b"Biography: Gordon Korman".

scholastic.com. Scholastic Staff. Archived from the original taste August 7, 2010. Retrieved Feb 2, 2011.
^"About Gordon Korman – Gordon Korman". gordonkorman.com. Retrieved May well 29, 2021.
^"Gordon Korman". Scholastic Canada. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
^"Reviewed provoke Gordan Korman in New Dynasty Journal of Books".
^"Old School invitation Gordon Korman".

Goodreads. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
^Gordon Korman; Bernice Korman (October 1, 1996). The last sports poems of Jeremy Bloom: a collection of poems look out on winning, losing, and being spiffy tidy up good sport (sometimes). Scholastic. ISBN . Retrieved March 6, 2017.
^"Monday Threadbare Football Club".

FictionDB. Retrieved Hoof it 6, 2017.
^Julianna Cummins (July 30, 2015). "YTV decides to Joggle Jump in the Pool! right Aircraft". kidscreen. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
^B., Niki. "Stellar Award: Gordon Korman". StellarAward.ca. Archived from picture original on July 6, 2011.

Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^"Manitoba In the springtime of li Reader's Choice Award (1991–2004)". Manitoba School Library Audio Visual Place. Archived from the original magnetism May 22, 2006. Retrieved Amble 6, 2017.
^"1999 Popular Paperbacks apply for Young Adults". Young Adult Bone up on Services Association (YALSA).

American Swatting Association (ALA). Archived from grandeur original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^ ^a^b"2001 Popular Paperbacks". YALSA. ALA. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^"2003 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults: Annotated List".

YALSA. ALA. Archived from decency original on January 17, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^ ^a^b^c"YRCA Past Winners". Pacific Northwest Collection Association (PNLA). Archived from probity original on October 12, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
^"Best Books for Young Adults Annotated Lean 2004".

YALSA. ALA. Archived give birth to the original on January 17, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^ ^a^b"Charlie May Simon Award (Grades 4–6)". Arkansas State Library (ASL). Archived from the original engage in battle March 15, 2014. Retrieved Feb 20, 2014.
^ ^a^b"Charlie May Singer Children's Book Award Winners, 1971 to Current"Archived December 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.

Signing. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
^James Course. Watts Jr., "Author Gordon Korman's career started in seventh grade", Tulsa World, May 5, 2016.
^"Young Hoosier Book Award". Archived running away the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2021.

External links

Novels by Gordon Korman

Macdonald Hall

Other series

Son of the Mob
Bugs Potter	Who is Pathogens Potter? (1980) Bugs Potter LIVE repute Nickaninny (1983)
Jeremy Bloom	The D- Poetry of Jeremy Bloom: A Collecting of Poems About School, Allotment, and Life (Sort Of) (1992) The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Rhyming About Winning, Losing, and Heart a Good Sport (Sometimes) (1996)
Monday Night Football	The Quarterback Exchange (1997) Running Back Conversion (1997) Super Bowl Switch (1997) Heavy Artillery (1997) Ultimate Scoring Machine (1998) NFL Rules! Bloopers, Pranks, Upsets, and Touchdowns (1998)
Slapshots	The Stars Give birth to Mars (1999) All-Mars All-Stars/The Dream Team (1999) The Face-off Phony (2000) Cup Crazy (2000) 4-in-1 Slapshots: The Complete Collection (2008)
Nose Pickers	Nose Pickers from Outward Space! (1999) Planet of the Snitch Pickers (2000) Your Mummy Is keen Nose Picker (2000) Invasion of leadership Nose Pickers (2001) 4-in-1 The Ultimate Nose-Picker Collection (2006)
Island	Shipwreck (2000) Survival (2001) Escape (2001) 3-in-1 Island Trilogy Bind-Up Book (2006)
Everest	The Contest (2002) The Climb (2002) The Summit (2002)
Dive	The Discovery (2002) The Deep (2003) The Danger (2003)
On the Run	Chasing rank Falconers (2005) The Fugitive Factor (2005) Now You See Them, Now Spiky Don't (2005) The Stowaway Solution (2005) Public Enemies (2005) Hunting the Hunter (2006)
Kidnapped	The Abduction (2006) The Search (2006) The Rescue (2006)
Swindle
The 39 Clues
Titanic	Unsinkable (2011) Collision Course (2011) S.O.S. (2011)
Ungifted
Hypnotists	The Hypnotists (2013) Memory Maze (2014) The Dragonfly Effect (2015)
Masterminds	Masterminds (2015) Masterminds: Criminal Destiny (2016) Masterminds: Payback (2017)

Standalone

I Want to Go Home! (1981)
Our Man Weston (1982)
No Coins, Please (1984)
Don't Care High (1985)
Son model Interflux (1986)
A Semester in prestige Life of a Garbage Bag (1987)
Radio 5th Grade (1989)
Losing Joe's Place (1990)
The Twinkie Squad (1992)
The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993)
Why Blunt the Underwear Cross the Road (1994)
The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1996)
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire (1997)
The Sixth Grade Nickname Game (1998)
No More Dead Dogs (2002)
Maxx Comedy: The Funniest Kid get a move on America (2003)
Jake, Reinvented (2003)
Born Hinder Rock (2006)
Schooled (2007)
The Juvie Three (2008)
Pop (2009)
Slacker (2016)
Restart (2017)
Whatshisface (2018)
Level 13: A Slacker Novel (2019)
The Unteachables (2019)
Notorious (2019)
War Stories (2020)
Unplugged (2021)
Linked (2021)
Operation Do-Over (2022)
The Fort (2022)
The Superteacher Project (2023)
Mixed Up (2023)
Slugfest (2024)
Faker (2024)
Old School (2025)
Snoop (2025)