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Canadian author of High School comedies, as well as adventure/thriller kid novels. His comedic novels include the Bruno & Boots/ Macdonald Hall series, No More Dead Dogs, and The Toilet Paper Tigers. His adventure novel series include Everest and On The Run.

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Works by Gordon Korman with their own trope pages include:

• Macdonald Hall series
• No More Dead Dogs
• On The Run
• Island
• I Want To Go Home!
• Son Of The Mob

Other works by Gordon Korman provide examples of:

• Accidental Athlete
• The Alcatraz
• An Aesop + Truth in Television: 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 it's actually cheaper and healthier to cook one's food than to eat out all the time.
• Capulet Counterpart
• Crazy Awesome
• Crazy Enough to Work
• Cursed with Awesome
• Dork Horse Candidate
• Go-to Alias
• High School
• Invented Individual - 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 imposters posing as him).
• Only Sane Man
• Same Story, Different Names
• Summer Campy
• This Is My Side

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Guy Gavriel Kay

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