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* SaveOurTeam: The plot of ''Literature/TheToiletPaperTigers'', which follows a summer baseball team for middle-school-aged kids. Though in this case, the actual coach is completely clueless about the game; it's his granddaughter who actually whips the team into shape. And she has to blackmail the team to do it.

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* SaveOurTeam: The plot of ''Literature/TheToiletPaperTigers'', which follows a summer baseball team for middle-school-aged kids. Though in this case, the actual coach is completely clueless about the game; it's his granddaughter who actually whips the team into shape. And she has to blackmail the team to do it.
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* SaveOurTeam: The plot of ''Literature/TheToiletPaperTigers'', which follows a summer baseball team for middle-school-aged kids. Though in this case, the actual coach is completely clueless about the game; it's his granddaughter who actually whips the team into shape. And she has to blackmail the team to do it.
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* ''Literature/{{Nose Pickers}}''
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The jJersey doesn't have a trope page, but this does! also adding a work i plan to trope.


* ''Series/TheJersey'' (based on the ''Monday Night Football Club'' series)

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* ''Series/TheJersey'' (based on the ''Monday Night Football Club'' series)
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* ''Literature/{{Masterminds}}''



* AnAesop + TruthInTelevision: In ''Losing Joe's Place'', the narrator happens to help a hot girl with her college homework. Specifically, about food costs. Then he does the math after she leaves, and finds that [[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html?pagewanted=all it's actually cheaper and healthier to cook one's food than to eat out all the time]].

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* AnAesop + TruthInTelevision: In ''Losing Joe's Place'', the narrator happens to help a hot girl with her college homework. Specifically, about food costs. Then he does the math after she leaves, and finds that [[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html?pagewanted=all html it's actually cheaper and healthier to cook one's food than to eat out all the time]].



* HighSchoolAU: ''Jake Reinvented'' is this for ''TheGreatGatsby''.

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* HighSchoolAU: ''Jake Reinvented'' is this for ''TheGreatGatsby''.''Literature/TheGreatGatsby''.



* ObliviousToLove: Jason Cardone, from Losing Joe's Place, doesn't notice [[Jessica's]] affections towards him until literally the very end.

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* ObliviousToLove: Jason Cardone, from Losing Joe's Place, doesn't notice [[Jessica's]] Jessica's affections towards him until literally the very end.
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* ''Literature/{{Schooled}}''
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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ Literature/MacdonaldHall series, ''Literature/NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''Literature/TheToiletPaperTigers''. His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''Literature/OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''

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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ Literature/MacdonaldHall series, ''Literature/NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''Literature/TheToiletPaperTigers''. ''The Toilet Paper Tigers.'' His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''Literature/OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''
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* ObliviousToLove: Jason Cardone, from Losing Joe's Place, doesn't notice [[Jessica's]] affections towards him until literally the very end.
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* DramaticIrony: In his ''Titanic'' trilogy, we know from the start that the ship will sink.
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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ Literature/MacdonaldHall series, ''Literature/NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''. His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''Literature/OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''

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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ Literature/MacdonaldHall series, ''Literature/NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''.''Literature/TheToiletPaperTigers''. His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''Literature/OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''
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* ''IWantToGoHome''

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* ''IWantToGoHome''''Literature/IWantToGoHome''
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* HighSchoolAU: ''Jake Reinvented'' is this for ''TheGreatGatsby''.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Raymond Jardine in ''A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag''.
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* ''Literature/ASemesterInTheLifeOfAGarbageBag''
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* OddCouple / HeterosexualLifePartners: in almost every one of his earlier works.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Raymond Jardine in ''A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag''.
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* ''Series/TheJersey'' (based on the ''Monday Night Football Club'' series)
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* BookDumb
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* CrazyAwesome
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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ Literature/MacdonaldHall series, ''Literature/NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''. His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''

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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ Literature/MacdonaldHall series, ''Literature/NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''. His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''OnTheRun''.''Literature/OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''
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* ''OnTheRun''

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* ''OnTheRun''''Literature/OnTheRun''
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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ MacdonaldHall series, ''Literature.NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''. His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''

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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ MacdonaldHall Literature/MacdonaldHall series, ''Literature.NoMoreDeadDogs'', ''Literature/NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''. His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''
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* ''MacdonaldHall'' series

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* ''MacdonaldHall'' ''Literature/MacdonaldHall'' series
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* ''{{Literature/Island}}''

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* ''{{Literature/Island}}''''Literature/{{Island}}''



* ''SonOfTheMob''

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* ''SonOfTheMob''
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Capulet Counterpart is being split into Defecting For Love and High Heel Face Turn. Misuse and examples without sufficient context are being deleted


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* InventedIndividual - In ''The War with Mr. Wizzle'', the protagonists create a fictitious student named Gavin Gunhold to mess with the school's new administration. The name becomes a running gag in many of Korman's later books. Gavin Gunhold (sometimes G. Gavin Gunhold) is mentioned, usually in passing, always as an incidental character who never actually appears (unless you count [[TheRealRemingtonSteele imposters posing as him]]).
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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ MacdonaldHall series, ''NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''. His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''

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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ MacdonaldHall series, ''NoMoreDeadDogs'', ''Literature.NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''. His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''
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Canadian author of HighSchool comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ MacdonaldHall series, ''NoMoreDeadDogs'', and ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''. His adventure novel series include ''Everest'' and ''OnTheRun''. His first novel, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall,'' was written and published when he was ''twelve years old.''
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!!Works by Gordon Korman with their own trope pages include:

* ''MacdonaldHall'' series
* ''Literature/NoMoreDeadDogs''
* ''OnTheRun''
* ''{{Literature/Island}}''
* ''IWantToGoHome''
* ''SonOfTheMob''

!!Other works by Gordon Korman provide examples of:

* AccidentalAthlete
* TheAlcatraz
* AnAesop + TruthInTelevision: In ''Losing Joe's Place'', the narrator happens to help a hot girl with her college homework. Specifically, about food costs. Then he does the math after she leaves, and finds that [[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html?pagewanted=all it's actually cheaper and healthier to cook one's food than to eat out all the time]].
* CapuletCounterpart
* CrazyAwesome
* CrazyEnoughToWork
* CursedWithAwesome
* DorkHorseCandidate
* GoToAlias
* HighSchool
* InventedIndividual - In ''The War with Mr. Wizzle'', the protagonists create a fictitious student named Gavin Gunhold to mess with the school's new administration. The name becomes a running gag in many of Korman's later books. Gavin Gunhold (sometimes G. Gavin Gunhold) is mentioned, usually in passing, always as an incidental character who never actually appears (unless you count [[TheRealRemingtonSteele imposters posing as him]]).
* NewAgeRetroHippie: The main character in ''Schooled''.
* OnlySaneMan
* SameStoryDifferentNames
* SummerCampy
* ThisIsMySide
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