Schooled
written by
Gordon Korman
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Gordon Korman has written more than fifty books for children and young adults,
When he was 12, he wrote his first book. Here’s how it happened. His Grade 7 English teacher, instead of giving his students lots of little assignments the way a typical teacher would, told his class, “Write a novel. It’s due in June.” (Was the teacher lazy, do you suppose, or did he take one look at Gordon and think, “This boy is a genius. I must inspire him to greatness”? No matter which, Gordon sat down and wrote This Can\'t Be Happening!, about the hilarious adventures of two friends, Bruno and Boots, who went to a boarding school called Macdonald Hall. He has written six other books about Macdonald Hall, which have recently been reissued.
Since then he as written for than fifty books for children and young adults including The New York Times bestseller, 39 Clues: One False Note and plans to write more for the series.
A native of Thornhill, Ontario, and a graduate of New York University\'s School of Dramatic Writing, Korman lives in New York with his family and writes full-time.
GORDON WRITES:
There\'s always a little bit of real life behind my storylines. Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire was based on me. I wasn\'t a liar, exactly - but I was the world\'s greatest inventor of excuses.
As for The Chicken Doesn\'t Skate, let\'s just say I visited a middle school with a very strange idea of how a chicken fits into a science experiment. And hey, it\'s a hockey book, and I\'m a hockey nut. You can\'t go wrong when you write about what you love! Did you know I was named after Gordie Howe, the old-time hockey star? No lie!
Anyway, keep on reading! I know I\'ll keep on writing.
Contact Gordon Korman at:
Website:www.gordonkorman.com
Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television. He's never tasted a pizza. He's never even heard of a wedgie. Since he was little, his only experience has been living on a farm commune and being homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Rain.
But when Rain falls out of a tree while picking plums and is forced to stay in the hospital, Cap must move in with a guidance counselor and her snarky teen daughter, and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
Right from the beginning, Cap's weirdness makes him a moving target at Claverage Middle School (dubbed C Average by the students). He has long, ungroomed hair, wears hemp clothes, and practices tai chi out on the lawn. When Zach Powers, big man on campus, spots Cap, he can't wait to introduce him to the age-old tradition at C Average: the biggest nerd gets nominated to run for class president... and wins.
Will Cap turn out to be the greatest president in the history of C Average? Or the biggest punch line?
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