Gordon Korman#Kidnapped series

Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he lived until 1970.{{cite web |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gordon-korman |title=Gordon Korman |last=Gardner |first=Suzanne |date=January 5, 2012 |website=thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |publisher=Historica Canada |access-date=June 7, 2023 |quote=}} He grew up in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) and attended German Mills Public School and public high school at Thornlea Secondary School.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/printArticle/611407 |title=Prodigy or precocious? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090407060645/http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/611407|archive-date=April 7, 2009|last=Zlomislic|first=Diana |date=April 1, 2009 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date= March 6, 2017}}

He moved to the United States to attend university at New York University where he studied film and film-writing.{{cite web |url= http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1578 |title=Biography: Gordon Korman |website= scholastic.com |publisher=Scholastic Teachers |access-date=February 2, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100807023037/http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1578 |archive-date=August 7, 2010 }} Korman received a BFA from New York University in 1985; with a degree in dramatic visual writing and a minor in motion picture and television.

Korman wrote his first book when he was 14 years old, as part of an English class taught by a PE teacher in 7th grade.{{Cite web|title=About Gordon Korman – Gordon Korman|url=https://gordonkorman.com/more-resources/about-gordon-korman-2|access-date=May 29, 2021|website=gordonkorman.com}} This became the manuscript for This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, the first book in his Macdonald Hall series. Korman was the Scholastic Arrow Book Club monitor for the class; after completing the assignment, he mailed his manuscript to Scholastic. This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall was published by Scholastic Press in 1978 when Korman was only 14 years old. Before graduating from high school in Thornhill, Ontario, Korman wrote and published five books.

Korman has written 105 books,{{Cite web|title=Gordon Korman |url=https://www.scholastic.ca/gordonkorman/|access-date=July 3, 2022|website=Scholastic Canada}} with his hundredth being The Fort. His books have sold over 35 million copies{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}.

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• I Want to Go Home! (1981)
• Our Man Weston (1982)
• No Coins, Please (1984)
• Don't Care High (1985)
• Son of Interflux (1986)
• A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag (1987)
• Radio 5th Grade (1989)
• Losing Joe's Place (1990)
• The Twinkie Squad (1992)
• The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993)
• Why Did the Underwear Cross the Road (1994)
• The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1996)
• Liar, Liar Pants on Fire (1997)
• The Sixth Grade Nickname Game (1998)

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• No More Dead Dogs (2000)
• Maxx Comedy: The Funniest Kid in America (2003)
• Jake, Reinvented (2003)
• Born To Rock (2006)
• Schooled (2007)
• The Juvie Three (2008)
• Pop (2009)
• Restart (2017)
• Whatshisface (2018)
• The Unteachables (2019){{cite web|url=https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/unteachables |title=Reviewed by Gordan Korman in New York Journal of Books}}
• Notorious (2019)
• War Stories (2020)
• Unplugged (2021)
• Linked (2021)
• Operation Do-Over (2022)
• The Fort (2022)
• The Superteacher Project (2023)
• Mixed Up (2023)
• Slugfest (2024)
• Faker (2024)
• Old School (2025){{cite web |title=Old School by Gordon Korman |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211642066-old-school |website=Goodreads |access-date=July 21, 2024}}

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• This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall (Scholastic-TAB Publications, 1978)
• Go Jump in the Pool (1979)
• Beware the Fish! (1980)
• The Wizzle War (formerly The War With Mr. Wizzle) (1982)
• The Zucchini Warriors (1988)
• Lights, Camera, Disaster (formerly Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood) (1991)
• The Joke’s On Us (formerly Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall) (1995)

• Who is Bugs Potter? (1980)
• Bugs Potter LIVE at Nickaninny (1983)

• The D− Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About School, Homework, and Life (Sort Of) (1992)
• The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About Winning, Losing, and Being a Good Sport (Sometimes) (1996){{cite book|author1=Gordon Korman|author2=Bernice Korman|title=The last-place sports poems of Jeremy Bloom: a collection of poems about winning, losing, and being a good sport (sometimes)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CqTZSi--EMC|access-date=March 6, 2017|date=October 1, 1996|publisher=Scholastic|isbn=978-0-590-25516-5}}

• The Quarterback Exchange: I Was John Elway (1997)
• Running Back Conversion: I Was Barry Sanders (1997)
• Super Bowl Switch: I Was Dan Marino (1997)
• Heavy Artillery: I Was Junior Seau (1997)
• Ultimate Scoring Machine: I Was Jerry Rice (1998)
• NFL Rules! Bloopers, Pranks, Upsets, and Touchdowns (1998)

• The Stars From Mars (1999)
• The Dream Team (formerly The All-Mars All-Stars) (1999)
• The Face-off Phony (2000)
• Cup Crazy (2000)
• 4-in-1 Slapshots: The Complete Collection (2008)

• Nose Pickers from Outer Space! (1999)
• Planet of the Nose Pickers (2000)
• Your Mummy Is a Nose Picker (2000)
• Invasion of the Nose Pickers (2001)
• 4-in-1 The Ultimate Nose-Picker Collection (2006)

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• Shipwreck (2001)
• Survival (2001)
• Escape (2001)
• 3-in-1 Island Trilogy Bind-Up Book (2006)

• Son of the Mob (Hyperion, 2002)
• Son of the Mob 2: Hollywood Hustle (2004)

• The Discovery (2003)
• The Deep (2003)
• The Danger (2003)

• Chasing the Falconers (2005)
• The Fugitive Factor (2005)
• Now You See Them, Now You Don't (2005)
• The Stowaway Solution (2005)
• Public Enemies (2005)
• Hunting the Hunter (2006)

• The Abduction (2006)
• The Search (2006)
• The Rescue (2006)

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(Series shared and all books written by different authors)

• One False Note (2008)
• The Emperor's Code (2010)
• Vespers Rising (2011)
• The Medusa Plot (2011)
• Flashpoint (2014)

• Swindle (2008)
• Zoobreak (2009)
• Framed (2010)
• Showoff (2012)
• Hideout (2013)
• Jackpot (2014)
• Unleashed (2015)
• Jingle (2016)

• Unsinkable (2011)
• Collision Course (2011)
• S.O.S (2011)

• Ungifted (2012)
• Supergifted (2018)

• The Contest (2002)
• The Climb (2002)
• The Summit (2002)

• The Hypnotists (2013)
• Memory Maze (2014)
• The Dragonfly Effect (2015)

• Slacker (2016)
• Level 13: A Slacker Novel (2019)

• Masterminds (2015)
• Masterminds: Criminal Destiny (2016)
• Masterminds: Payback (2017)

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The Monday Night Football Club series was adapted as the Disney Channel TV series The Jersey, which ran for four years between 1999 and 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.fictiondb.com/author/gordon-korman~series~monday-night-football-club~17315.htm|access-date=March 6, 2017|work=FictionDB|title=Monday Night Football Club}}

Swindle was adapted into a movie that aired on Nickelodeon in 2013.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

Three Macdonald Hall series books were TV adapted as the "Bruno & Boots" miniseries, with Go Jump in the Pool, This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, and The War with Mr. Wizzle (as The Wizzle War). It starred Jonny Gray, Callan Potter and Peter Keleghan. It debuted on April 1, 2016, firstly with Go Jump In The Pool, on the Canadian network YTV.{{cite news|url=http://kidscreen.com/2015/07/30/ytv-decides-to-go-jump-in-the-pool-with-aircraft/|title=YTV decides to Go Jump in the Pool! with Aircraft|publisher=kidscreen|date=July 30, 2015|author=Julianna Cummins|access-date=November 9, 2015}} The other two adaptations aired on YTV the next year on the same day.

Other optioned books include No Coins, Please, I Want to Go Home, the Island trilogy and The Twinkie Squad.

• Air Canada Award for promising authors in Canada, at age 17{{cite web |first=Niki |last=B. |url=http://www.stellaraward.ca/author.php?id=21 |title=Stellar Award: Gordon Korman |work= StellarAward.ca |access-date=February 2, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706204129/http://www.stellaraward.ca/author.php?id=21 |archive-date=July 6, 2011 }}
• 1991 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award (chosen by Manitoba schoolchildren), The Zucchini Warriors (1988){{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522124717/http://www.learningwithliterature.ualberta.ca/manyoungreader.htm|archive-date=May 22, 2006|url=http://www.learningwithliterature.ualberta.ca/manyoungreader.htm|title= Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award (1991–2004).|publisher=Manitoba School Library Audio Visual Association|access-date=March 6, 2017}}
• 1999 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993){{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/popularpaperback/annotations/1999popularpaperbacks.cfm |title=1999 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults |publisher=Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). American Library Association (ALA) |access-date=February 2, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605063013/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/popularpaperback/annotations/1999popularpaperbacks.cfm |archive-date=June 5, 2011 }}
• 2001 American Library Association Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, Losing Joe's Place (1990){{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/popularpaperback/2001popularpaperbacks.cfm |title=2001 Popular Paperbacks |publisher=YALSA. ALA |access-date=February 2, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605063002/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/popularpaperback/2001popularpaperbacks.cfm |archive-date=June 5, 2011 }}
• 2001 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1993)
• 2003 ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, Son of the Mob (2002){{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/annotations/2003toptenbest.cfm |title=2003 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults: Annotated List |publisher=YALSA. ALA |access-date=February 2, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110117034635/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/annotations/2003toptenbest.cfm |archive-date=January 17, 2011 }}
• 2003 Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (chosen by Pacific NW schoolchildren), Intermediate Division (Grades 7–9), No More Dead Dogs (2003){{cite web |url=http://www.pnla.org/yrca-past-winners |title=YRCA Past Winners |publisher=Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) |access-date=February 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012133547/http://www.pnla.org/yrca-past-winners |archive-date=October 12, 2016 |url-status=dead }}
• 2004 ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Jake Reinvented (2003){{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/annotations/2004bestbooks.cfm |title=Best Books for Young Adults Annotated List 2004 |publisher=YALSA. ALA |access-date=February 2, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110117034206/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/annotations/2004bestbooks.cfm |archive-date=January 17, 2011 }}
• 2005 PNLA Young Reader's Choice Award – Intermediate, Son of the Mob (2002)
• 2010 PNLA Young Reader's Choice Award – Intermediate, Schooled (2007)
• 2010–2011 Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (by a vote of Arkansas schoolchildren), Swindle (2008)
• 2011–2012 Charlie May Simon Award, Zoobreak (2009){{cite web |title=Charlie May Simon Award (Grades 4–6) |url=http://www.library.arkansas.gov/ChildrensBookAwards/Pages/CharlieMaySimonAward.aspx |publisher=Arkansas State Library (ASL) |access-date=February 20, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315215447/http://www.library.arkansas.gov/ChildrensBookAwards/Pages/CharlieMaySimonAward.aspx |archive-date=March 15, 2014 }}[http://www.library.arkansas.gov/ChildrensBookAwards/Documents/Winners-%20Simon%20Award%20Winners-%20web.pdf "Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Winners, 1971 to Current"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203134535/http://www.library.arkansas.gov/ChildrensBookAwards/Documents/Winners-%20Simon%20Award%20Winners-%20web.pdf |date=December 3, 2013 }}. ASL. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
• 2016 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' LiteratureJames D. Watts Jr., [http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/scene/arts/author-gordon-korman-s-career-started-in-seventh-grade/article_43d396b4-f0ef-5586-a5a0-0235dede076c.html "Author Gordon Korman's career started in seventh grade"], Tulsa World, May 5, 2016.
• 2020 Young Hoosier Book Award (Intermediate), Restart (2017){{Cite web|title=Young Hoosier Book Award|url=https://www.ilfonline.org/page/yhba|access-date=March 15, 2021|archive-date=March 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309054109/http://www.ilfonline.org/page/yhba|url-status=dead}}

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