This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! by Gordon Korman

GK: Even though I didn’t plan it to be, The Fort is an appropriate Book One Hundred for me, because it’s so much about the dynamic between kids and the dynamic between friends. RS: And does it feel that way now? Now that we can say this is your hundredth book, how does that change the way you look at it? But author friends kept asking me, “What are you doing for Book One Hundred?” During presentations in schools and on Zoom, kids were really, really into “What’s Book One Hundred going to be? What are you planning for that?” To me, it was almost an afterthought that my hundredth book was in some way special. There are so many ghostwriters and series book writers - they hit one hundred early on. I didn’t think of one hundred as that big a milestone. This is your hundredth book - did you intend it to be?

Gordon Korman: Great Neck, Long Island, so not too far from Boston. Roger Sutton: Where are you living, Gordon? Today we talk on the occasion of the publication of his hundredth book, The Fort. Gordon Korman published his first book ( This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!, Scholastic, 1978) when he was still a freshman in high school. In the end, he and Diane end up together as a couple.Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. He can't help himself from using cheesy pick up lines on the girls of Miss Scrimmage's Girls Academy (Diane and Cathy). To top it off, he had made a fake newspaper article on it to persuade George that he had 'Creeping Caliotis' and that he was going to die if he didn't stay in bed.Įven though Boots is a rascal, he can also be a romantic guy- for the ladies. Another one of my favourite pranks was when he pranked George, and told him he had a rare disease of red splotches on his face.

So when 'The Strip' came on, all the boys started dancing and the school was chaotic. One of their most famous pranks was changing their national anthem to 'The Strip'.

He and Bruno would always go around their boarding school pulling pranks. Not only the girls' academy, but they will also explore the rest of the neightbourhood.īeing rascallike is what Boots is best at. They would talk and have a little party in the girls' dorm rooms. Show More would sneak out of their dorm rooms at night over to Miss Scrimmage's academy for girls to meet up with their soon-to-be girlfriends and their friends.

This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! by Gordon Korman