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Author photo. Author Gordon Korman at the 2019 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84523418" rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84523418</a>

Author Gordon Korman at the 2019 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84523418

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Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Canada on October 23, 1963. When his 7th-grade English teacher told the class they could have 45 minutes a day for four months to work on a story of their choice, Korman began This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall. He was also the class monitor for the Scholastic TAB Book Club, so he sent his novel to the address on the TAB flyer, and a few days after his 14th birthday, he had a book contract with Scholastic. By the time he graduated from high school, he had published five other novels and several articles for Canadian newspapers. He received a BFA degree from New York University with a major in Dramatic Writing and a minor in Film and TV. He has written over 75 books for children and young adults including the Swindle series, The Juvie Three, and two books of poetry written by the fictional character Jeremy Bloom. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from One False Note… (more)
One False Note 2,976 copies, 70 reviews
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Schooled 2,507 copies, 100 reviews
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Ungifted 1,765 copies, 53 reviews
No More Dead Dogs 1,762 copies, 53 reviews
The Emperor's Code 1,509 copies, 29 reviews
Restart 1,489 copies, 30 reviews
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The Contest 1,157 copies, 8 reviews
Escape 1,121 copies, 4 reviews
Survival 1,074 copies, 9 reviews
Vespers Rising 1,021 copies, 19 reviews
Chasing the Falconers 1,013 copies, 21 reviews
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Son of the Mob 923 copies, 50 reviews
The Discovery (Dive, Book 1) 877 copies, 7 reviews
Framed 872 copies, 9 reviews
The Medusa Plot 870 copies, 23 reviews
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Collision Course 686 copies, 7 reviews
S.O.S. 666 copies, 7 reviews
Radio Fifth Grade 652 copies, 3 reviews
The 6th Grade Nickname Game 651 copies, 17 reviews
The Abduction (Kidnapped, Book 1) 628 copies, 19 reviews
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Masterminds 613 copies, 25 reviews
Born to Rock 594 copies, 35 reviews
Showoff (Swindle) 587 copies, 5 reviews
Slacker 571 copies, 9 reviews
The Unteachables 555 copies, 12 reviews
Pop 547 copies, 30 reviews
The Hypnotists: Book 1 532 copies, 15 reviews
I Want to Go Home! 510 copies, 12 reviews
Now You See Them, Now You Don't 508 copies, 6 reviews
The Stowaway Solution 496 copies, 6 reviews
Hideout (Swindle) 474 copies, 3 reviews
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Public Enemies 464 copies, 9 reviews
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Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood 234 copies, 3 reviews
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Linked 212 copies, 6 reviews
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Gordon Korman published his first book at the ages of 14, and has written more than 90 juvenile and teen novels. His favorites include the New York Times bestselling Ungifted, Supergifted, Pop, and the Mastermind Sereis. Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York. [from The Unteachables, 2019]
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