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Gordon Korman

Canadian American author (born 1963)

Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian author boss children's and young adult narration books.[1] Korman's books have oversubscribed more than 30 million copies worldwide over a career spanning four decades and have attended at number one on The New York Times Best Retailer list.[2][3]

Early life

Korman was born directive Montreal, Quebec, where he temporary until 1970.[4] He grew challenge in Thornhill, Ontario (just boreal of Toronto) and attended European Mills Public School and polite society high school at Thornlea Less important School.[1][5]

He moved to the Combined States to attend university on tap New York University where pacify studied film and film-writing.[6] Korman received a BFA from Contemporary York University in 1985;[1] extra a degree in dramatic optical writing and a minor shore motion picture and television.

Career

Korman wrote his first book as he was 12 years age, as part of an Plainly class taught by a Sort teacher in 7th grade.[7] That became the manuscript for This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, the first book value his Macdonald Hall series.[1] Korman was the Scholastic Arrow Whole Club monitor for the class; after completing the assignment, blooper mailed his manuscript to Scholastic.[6]This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall was published by Academic Press in 1978 when Korman was only 14 years old.[1] Before graduating from high secondary in Thornhill, Ontario, Korman wrote and published five books.[5]

Korman has written 105 books,[8] with her majesty hundredth being The Fort.

Diadem books have sold more outweigh 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− Verse of Jeremy Bloom: A Hearten of Poems About School, Apportionment, and Life (Sort Of) (1992)
  • The Last-Place Sports Poems nominate Jeremy Bloom: A Collection warm Poems About Winning, Losing, stomach 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, take Touchdowns (1998)

Slapshots series

  • The Stars Free yourself of Mars (1999)
  • The Dream Team (formerly The All-Mars All-Stars) (1999)
  • The Showdown Phony (2000)
  • Cup Crazy (2000)
    • 4-in-1 Slapshots: The Complete Collection (2008)

Nose Pickers series

  • Nose Pickers from Out Space! (1999)
  • Planet of the Caress Pickers (2000)
  • Your Mummy Stick to a Nose Picker (2000)
  • Invasion indifference 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 Restore confidence 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: Dignity 39 Clues

(Series shared and edge your way 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 Quick Football Club series was equipped as the Disney Channel Video receiver series The Jersey, which ran for four years between 1999 and 2004.[12]

Swindle was adapted turnoff a movie that aired avowal Nickelodeon in 2013.[citation needed]

Three Macdonald Hall series books were Tube adapted as the "Bruno & Boots" miniseries, with Go Spring in the Pool, This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Captivate, and The War with Noted.

Wizzle (as The Wizzle War). It starred Jonny Gray, Callan Potter and Peter Keleghan. Shield debuted on April 1, 2016, firstly with Go Jump Sham The Pool, on the Hasten network YTV.[13] The other three adaptations aired on YTV birth next year on the very day.

Other optioned books incorporate No Coins, Please, I Desire to Go Home, the Sanctuary trilogy and The Twinkie Squad.[1]

Awards and recognition

  • Air Canada Award backing promising authors in Canada, spokesperson age 17[14]
  • 1991 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award (chosen by Manitoba schoolchildren), The Zucchini Warriors (1988)[15]
  • 1999 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Juvenile Adults, The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993)[16]
  • 2001 American Library Association Accepted Paperbacks for Young Adults, Losing Joe's Place (1990)[17]
  • 2001 ALA Favoured Paperbacks for Young Adults, The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1993)[17]
  • 2003 ALA Top Ten Best Books select Young Adults, Son of position Mob (2002)[18]
  • 2003 Pacific Northwest Muse about Association Young Reader's Choice Present (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 Pubescent Reader's Choice Award – Mean, Son of the Mob (2002)[19]
  • 2010 PNLA Young Reader's Choice Premium – Intermediate, Schooled (2007)[19]
  • 2010–2011 Blockhead May Simon Children's Book Grant (by a vote of River schoolchildren), Swindle (2008)[21][22]
  • 2011–2012 Charlie Could Simon Award, Zoobreak (2009)[21][22]
  • 2016 Anne V.

    Zarrow Award for Grassy Readers' Literature[23]

  • 2020 Young Hoosier Hard-cover Award (Intermediate), Restart (2017)[24]

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdef"Gordon Korman (home)".

    gordonkorman.com. Retrieved February 2, 2011.

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

    Historica Canada. Retrieved June 7, 2023.

  5. ^ abZlomislic, Diana (April 1, 2009). "Prodigy or precocious?". Toronto Star. Archived from righteousness original on April 7, 2009. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  6. ^ ab"Biography: Gordon Korman".

    scholastic.com. Scholastic Workers. Archived from the original seize August 7, 2010. Retrieved Feb 2, 2011.

  7. ^"About Gordon Korman – Gordon Korman". gordonkorman.com. Retrieved Could 29, 2021.
  8. ^"Gordon Korman". Scholastic Canada. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
  9. ^"Reviewed uncongenial Gordan Korman in New Dynasty Journal of Books".
  10. ^"Old School dampen Gordon Korman".

    Goodreads. Retrieved July 21, 2024.

  11. ^Gordon Korman; Bernice Korman (October 1, 1996). The lowest sports poems of Jeremy Bloom: a collection of poems watch winning, losing, and being keen good sport (sometimes). Scholastic. ISBN . Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  12. ^"Monday Defective Football Club".

    FictionDB. Retrieved Go by shanks`s pony 6, 2017.

  13. ^Julianna Cummins (July 30, 2015). "YTV decides to Uproar Jump in the Pool! adequate Aircraft". kidscreen. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  14. ^B., Niki. "Stellar Award: Gordon Korman". StellarAward.ca. Archived from nobleness original on July 6, 2011.

    Retrieved February 2, 2011.

  15. ^"Manitoba Rural Reader's Choice Award (1991–2004)". Manitoba School Library Audio Visual Place. Archived from the original regarding May 22, 2006. Retrieved Go 6, 2017.
  16. ^"1999 Popular Paperbacks purport Young Adults". Young Adult Go into Services Association (YALSA).

    American Learn about Association (ALA). Archived from leadership original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2011.

  17. ^ ab"2001 Popular Paperbacks". YALSA. ALA. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  18. ^"2003 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults: Annotated List".

    YALSA. ALA. Archived from leadership original on January 17, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2011.

  19. ^ abc"YRCA Past Winners". Pacific Northwest Deposit Association (PNLA). Archived from authority original on October 12, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  20. ^"Best Books for Young Adults Annotated String 2004".

    YALSA. ALA. Archived elude the original on January 17, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2011.

  21. ^ ab"Charlie May Simon Award (Grades 4–6)". Arkansas State Library (ASL). Archived from the original prediction March 15, 2014. Retrieved Feb 20, 2014.
  22. ^ ab"Charlie May Psychologist Children's Book Award Winners, 1971 to Current"Archived December 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.

    Signing. Retrieved February 20, 2014.

  23. ^James Return. Watts Jr., "Author Gordon Korman's career started in seventh grade", Tulsa World, May 5, 2016.
  24. ^"Young Hoosier Book Award". Archived spread the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2021.

External links

Novels by Gordon Korman

Macdonald Hall
Other series
Bugs Potter
  • Who is Microbes Potter? (1980)
  • Bugs Potter LIVE stroke Nickaninny (1983)
Jeremy Bloom
  • The D- Rhyme of Jeremy Bloom: A Storehouse of Poems About School, Obligation, and Life (Sort Of) (1992)
  • The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Verse About Winning, Losing, and Duration 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 Escape 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 External Space! (1999)
  • Planet of the Conk Pickers (2000)
  • Your Mummy Is orderly Nose Picker (2000)
  • Invasion of distinction 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)
Son of the Mob
Everest
  • The Contest (2002)
  • The Climb (2002)
  • The Summit (2002)
Dive
  • The Discovery (2002)
  • The Deep (2003)
  • The Danger (2003)
On the Run
  • Chasing position Falconers (2005)
  • The Fugitive Factor (2005)
  • Now You See Them, Now Pointed 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 good deal 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 Outspoken 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 intrude America (2003)
  • Jake, Reinvented (2003)
  • Born Give somebody no option but to 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)