I have this exact book in one of the boxes stacked in a giant pile in the corner of the living room. I didn't go to school in the eighties, but my father did. He read all the Gordon Korman books when he was young.
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He and his yeshiva classmates would pass around the Bruno and Boots books and No Coins Please (the funniest!!) and I Want To Go Home and Don't Care High. Then he grew up and has us kids and everything and he shared those books with us.
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If Gordon Korman has no fans I am no longer on this Earth
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I remember reading those in the early nineties.
aug 18, 2025, 5:06 am • 1 0 • view
I heard back then the kids were all about Korman, Christie, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Two out of three in my case (never got into Christie). Gonna have to check with my classmate who now lives in Lakewood and just had his first grandchild if he let his kids read them…
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HEY! I read those books when *I* was in 8th grade; that was only <*mumbled calculation*>… . . . GET OFF MY LAWN, YOU KIDS!
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Do you ever think about the fact that Korman wrote This Can't Be Happening At Macdonald Hall when he was 12 and it was published when he was 14? And now he is 61.
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