I happened to be the class monitor for the Scholastic TAB Book Club, so I figured I was practically a Scholastic employee already! I sent my novel to the address on the TAB flyer, and a few days after my 14th birthday, I had a book contract with Scholastic."īy the time Korman graduated from high school, he had published five other novels and several articles for Canadian newspapers. My project was This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, which became my first published book. Then his 7th-grade English teacher gave the class an exciting assignment: "He gave us four months-45 minutes a day!-to work on the story of our choice. Since he had no brothers, sisters, or pets, he started writing to keep himself entertained. Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in the Toronto area. Currently-lives in Great Neck (Long Island), New York, USA.This is Gordon Korman at his crowd-pleasing best, perfect for readers who like to hoot, howl, and heist. There are many things standing in their way-a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, and their inability to drive-but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his.even if hijinks ensue. After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card.
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