1. Gordon Korman’s Website He was named after hockey great Gordie Howe Born in Canada Favorite authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Robert Cormier, Paul Zindel [Have to confess to being a Harry Potter fan, lately. Other fave kidsbook writers -- Jerry Spinelli, Cris Crutcher, Jack Gantos -- GK] Favorite books as a kid were the “Great Brain” series

2. This was the first book Gordon Korman wrote at age 12! A new English teacher required all students in his 7th grade class to write a novel over course of the semester, which became This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! Good Conversations video

3. Capricorn Anderson: I was on my way to homeroom when Mr. Kasigi, the assistant principal, flagged me down. Standing beside him was the strangest looking kid I'd ever seen. He was tall, and skinny as a rake. I swear he'd never been anywhere near a barbershop in his life. His long blond flyaway hair stretched all the way down to the middle of his back. His clothes looked like pajamas – homemade pajamas. And his shoes were something out of a social studies project on pioneer days. They were sandals woven out of cornhusks, and rustled when he moved.

4. See a video of Gordon Korman talking about Swindle

5. Wallace Wallace has a problem -- no, not his name, that's kind of cool -- he's thought of as the star player on the football team, but his English teacher won't let him play because the teacher disagrees with his opinion on an assigned reading project. Instead of making passes and running touchdowns, Wallace finds himself stuck in the gym after school each day, on detention, while the drama department puts on a theatrical version of Old Shep, My Pal. The teacher's plan? Force Old Shep on him until he breaks down and does a positive review. But things seldom run as planned in a good story, and the instructor soon finds Wallace turning his play upside down. Meanwhile, the football team is loosing big-time and they blame Wallace for not being there. And somebody is sabotaging the production, but nobody seems to know for sure if it's Wallace, one of the football players, or somebody else entirely. Needless to say, things get pretty hectic … but one way or another, the drama club is putting on a play!

6. Just as Dante’s glove closed over the cartridge, the grotesque head of a moray eel exploded out of the hole, revealing an improbably gaping mouth of inch-long needles. Shocked, he snapped back his arm, and the jaws bit down on the metal of the marker buoy, sending broken teeth in all directions.

7. chronicles the tremendous competition between a couple dozen kids to be selected to fill one of the four slots on the team which will make history as the youngest to ever climb Everest -- if they make it!

8. Watch a video of Son of the Mob

9. Vince, Kendra, and Alex are going to college - in California - as far away from their families as possible, or so they think.

10. SOON TO BE A MOVIE!!!

11. Juvie Three video