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Gordon Korman

13 award wins, 15 nominations across 13 books.

Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec. In 1970, he relocated with his parents to Thornhill, Ontario. In 7th grade, he wrote a work that went on to become his first novel in a school writing assignment. It was published under the title *This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall* in 1978, when Korman was 14 years old. He wrote and published another four books while in high school.

LinkedMastermindsNo More Dead DogsPopRestartRestart: Lose Your Memory. Find Your LifeSchooledSon of the MobSwindleThe FortUngiftedUnpluggedZoobreak
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Linked

2 Awards Won
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Masterminds

1 Nomination

Published 2015-02-03 · 336 pages

Eli Frieden lives in the most perfect town in the world: Serenity, New Mexico. Honesty and integrity are valued above all else. The thirty kids who live there never lie—they know it’s a short leap from that to the awful problems of other, less fortunate places.

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No More Dead Dogs

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Pop

1 Nomination

Published 2009-08-25 · 267 pages

Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.

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Restart

1 Award Won3 Nominations

Published 2017-05-30 · 256 pages

Chase Ambrose, an 8th grade bully has the chance to restart his life after a great, big fall that made him lose his memory.As he tries to rebuild his life he finds out about all the horrible things he has done and does not like that version of himself so he decides to make a change.But others cannot trust his new life.Will Chase be able to gain trust from others or will he never be forgiven?

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Restart: Lose Your Memory. Find Your Life

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Schooled

3 Awards Won4 Nominations

Published 2007-09-01 · 208 pages

Thirteen year old Anderson has never watched t.v., or never had pizza or even heard of a wedgie. The only thing he has ever done is been home schooled by his hippie grand mother, Rain. When she broke her hip after she fell out of a tree picking plums, he is forced to stay in a foster home. Will this be his only chance to try to stop from going to a real school? Or will his bananas go rotton?

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Son of the Mob

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Swindle

2 Awards Won

Published 2008-03-01 · 252 pages

After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.

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The Fort

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Ungifted

4 Nominations

Published 2012-08-21 · 284 pages

The word gifted has never been applied to a kid like Donovan Curtis. It's usually more like Don't try this at home. So when the troublemaker pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he's finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of getting in trouble, Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction (ASD), a special program for gifted and talented students.

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Unplugged

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Zoobreak

2 Nominations

Published 2009-09-01 · 235 pages

After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.

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