Gordon Korman, Author Scholastic $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-40694-9
Sean Delancey, high school basketball star, is just an ordinary, popular guyuntil he meets eccentric Raymond Jardine, a boy with absolutely no luck. Although reluctant at first, Sean is drawn into Raymond's wacky scheme to secure a spot on the...
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Gordon Korman. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (280p) ISBN 978-0-06-256388-0
Mr. Kermit was once among the best teachers at Greenwich Middle School, but a cheating scandal 25 years ago dampened his passion for the job, and now he is biding time until his early retirement. After the superintendent assigns him to the “Self-Cont
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Gordon Korman. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-338-05377-7
When a middle school bully suffers amnesia after a bad fall, it gives him the chance to start fresh, but rebuilding his life is an uphill battle when everyone else still remembers the sins of his past. Eighth-grader Chase Ambrose attempts to...
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Gordon Korman. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-82315-9
In this highly entertaining tale from Korman (Masterminds), eighth grader Cam Boxer lives for playing video games with his two best friends. When he ignores his mother's dinner instructions while playing, resulting in the fire department breaking...
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Gordon Korman. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-229996-3
Several teens learn that their idyllic small-town existence is a sham in this first entry in Korman’s Masterminds series. Serenity, N.Mex., has the best standard of living in the country, with zero unemployment and total peace and prosperity....
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Gordon Korman. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-50322-8
The fast-paced first volume in Korman’s Hypnotists series introduces some historical conspiracies worthy of Dan Brown. In Korman’s world, famous events from the Hindenberg disaster to the Lewis and Clark expedition were influenced by hypnotists,...
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Gordon Korman. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-174266-8
Too much homogeneity is never a good thing. In this funny and insightful middle-grade novel from Korman (Pop), eighth-grader Donovan Curtis is a reckless boy with “poor impulse control,” whose classmates have voted him “Most Likely to Wind Up in...
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Gordon Korman, Author Hyperion Books $15.99 (268p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0918-9
Children's NOTES And Then What Happened? Fall novels offer continuing adventures. Son of the Mob, according to PW, is ""The Sopranos (minus the vulgarity and violence) meets Leave It to Beaver, a brassy, comical caper."" Now, in Son of the Mob:...
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Gordon Korman, Author Scholastic $13.95 (195p) ISBN 978-0-590-46230-3
When a motley crew of Little League baseball players acquires a coach ``who had a great mind for science but was a total goose-egg when it came to baseball,'' it looks like the start of another deadbeat season. Things start to look up for the boys...
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Gordon Korman, Author Scholastic $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-43940-4
Korman ( Beware the Fish! ; The Zucchini Warriors ) has written another rollicking tale about the boys who attend a Canadian boarding school. MacDonald Hall has been selected as the setting for a Hollywood film, Academy Blues , starring teenage idol
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Gordon Korman, Author Scholastic $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-41802-7
In this riotous romp, best friends Bruno and Boots enlist the aid of the girls at Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School to rescue their school from financial woes. Ages 8-12. (Feb.)
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Gordon Korman, Author Scholastic $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-41928-4
Korman ( A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag ; Don't Care High )tackles the topic of student-run radio with characteristic lightheartedness. Benjy hopes for great things for ``his'' show, but circumstances conspire against it: a stubbornly...
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Gordon Korman, Author Scholastic $13.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-590-45249-6
In this slapstick comedy, Gordon Korman introduces Douglas Fairchild, ambassador's son and private school flunkee. From his Pefkakian ancestry to sending memos to the bus driver and creating the ultimate school stench with squid, Douglas's antics...
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Gordon Korman, Author Scholastic Paperbacks $6.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-590-41927-7
``Korman tackles the topic of student-run radio with characteristic lightheartedness,'' said PW . ``The novel is feelingly written; more than a romp, it has genuine charm.'' Ages 8-12. (Aug.)
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Gordon Korman, Author . HarperCollins/Balzer & Bray $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-174228-6
Shortly after moving to a new town, Marcus encounters Charlie, a strange, middle-aged man who turns out to be an incredible football player. Marcus, hoping to be a varsity quarterback at his new school, begins meeting Charlie regularly. Charlie is a
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Gordon Korman, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (261p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0920-2
Every book should be this entertaining. Korman (No More Dead Dogs
) hooks readers with a prologue in which Young Republican Leo Caraway teasingly relates that he's had firsthand experience of a "cavity search.... It has nothing to do with...
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Gordon Korman, Author . Scholastic/Apple $4.99 (154p) ISBN 978-0-439-65136-3
Korman gets his On the Run series off to a snappy start with this quick-moving caper. Fifteen-year-old Aiden Falconer and his 11-year-old sister, Meg, have been exiled to a juvenile detention center in rural Nebraska since their parents were...
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Gordon Korman, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (213p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1957-7
Dedicated to "Jay and Daisy," Korman's (Maxx Comedy: The Funniest Kid in America
) smart novel imagines The Great Gatsby
with a cast of characters from Fitzgerald High. The Jay Gatsby figure is nerd turned bon vivant Jake Garrett; Daisy
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Gordon Korman, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0746-8
Ironically, Korman's (Son of the Mob) usually smoothly delivered humor often stumbles in this tale about an 11-year-old whose "overpowering ambition" is to be a professional stand-up comic. When he discovers a contest to find "the...
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Gordon Korman, read by Ramon de Ocampo. Scholastic Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 6 hrs., $25.99 ISBN 978-0-545-60026-2
Twelve-year-old Jackson is accepted into a program at the Sentia Institute after an encounter with a stage hypnotist—and because he's actually the descendent of powerful hypnotists. At the institute, Jackson begins honing his skills, but soon...
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Gordon Korman, Author, JoAnn Adinolfi, Author, JoAnn Adinolfi, Illustrator Scholastic Paperbacks $4.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-590-27141-7
The third-grade narrator lies to make herself seem special--which only leads to more fibs. Ages 7-9. (Jan.)
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Gordon Korman, Author, Billy Hammond, Read by , read by Billy Hammond. Brilliance Audio $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-1195-9
Though Hammond gets off to a slightly bumpy, halting start, he soon catches the fun rhythm and youthful energy of Korman's latest novel, a fresh spin on the fish-out-of-water tale. Leo Caraway leads a charmed life as a fairly straight-laced...
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Gordon Korman, Author, Mike Reed, Illustrator, Victor Vaccaro, Illustrator Hyperion Books $3.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1343-8
The flippant title of this debut book in the L.A.F. :) series should tip off readers to Korman's fast-fire (if sometimes pat) wordplay and amusingly preposterous plot. Devin Hunter suspects he's in trouble the first moment he lays eyes on his school-
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Gordon Korman, Author, Gordon Karman, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0769-7
The Sopranos
(minus the vulgarity and violence) meets Leave It to Beaver
(minus the "aw-shucks" tone and dated sensibility) in Korman's (No More Dead Dogs) brassy, comical caper. With its razor-sharp dialogue and bullet-fast pace, this
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Gordon Korman. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-279886-2
Keenan, 12, has lived all over, thanks to his mother and stepfather’s jobs in international schools. When he ends up stuck at his father’s house on Centerlight—a “one-horse” river island on the border between Canada and the U.S.—to recover from...
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Gordon Korman. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-279889-3
After one too many escapades, Jett Baranov, 12-year-old heir to a Silicon Valley empire, is shipped off to the Oasis of Mind and Body Wellness in Arkansas, where, stripped of technology and subjected to vegetarian food and yoga, he’s expected to...
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Gordon Korman. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-303274-3
Korman (Unplugged) brings smart plotting to an absorbing time travel narrative that examines the long-term impact of actions. Mason Rolle has shared a “two-brain hive mind” with Tyrus Ehrlich since elementary school, initially bonding over a sports...
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Gordon Korman. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-303279-8
When new teacher Mr. Aidact arrives at Brightling Middle School, the students aren’t initially sure what to make of him. He can catch spitballs in midair and recite the lyrics to any song, coaches the field hockey team to victory, and makes...
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Gordon Korman. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-338-82672-2
Two white-cued tweens who have never met mysteriously begin swapping memories in this suspenseful novel by Korman (The Superteacher Project). Twelve-year-old Reef Moody is grieving his mother’s death more than a year ago when he realizes that he can’
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Gordon Korman. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-323809-1
After spending all year playing on the local high school’s JV sports teams, middle schooler and athletic superstar Arnie “Yash” Yashenko is shocked to learn that he’s failed PE due to numerous unexcused absences. And because he won’t graduate eighth
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Gordon Korman. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-338-82675-3
As the son of a grifter, 12-year-old Trey has his con artist routine down to a science: enroll in a new school, make friends, introduce his father to his friends’ wealthy parents, and get out before their targets realize they’ve been scammed. Their...
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Gordon Korman. HarperCollins, $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-323814-5
In classic Korman (Slugfest) fashion, an otherwise ordinary school is thrown into upheaval by the arrival of an unexpectedly chaotic element in this endearing story. With his parents constantly moving for work, white-cued 12-year-old Dexter Foreman...
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