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Korman, Gordon

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Works: 403 works in 1,183 publications in 15 languages and 94,595 library holdings
Genres: Adventure fiction  Children's stories  Adventure stories  Young adult fiction  Suspense fiction  Code and cipher stories  Canadian fiction  Spanish language materials  Mystery and detective stories  Humorous fiction 
Classifications: pz7.k8369, 813.54
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25 editions published between and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 4,007 libraries worldwide
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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17 editions published between and 2011 in English and held by 3,497 libraries worldwide
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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17 editions published between and 2011 in English and French and held by 3,329 libraries worldwide
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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26 editions published between and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 2,540 libraries worldwide
A million dollars, or a clue? Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. There's a car and speedboat chase and an angry mob! When there's a Clue on the line, anything can happen.
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19 editions published between and 2011 in English and held by 2,452 libraries worldwide
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.
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23 editions published between and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,310 libraries worldwide
Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.
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19 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 2,135 libraries worldwide
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
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21 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 2,119 libraries worldwide
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie, but when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
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10 editions published in in English and held by 1,991 libraries worldwide
As they continue their search for the 39 Clues in China, fourteen-year-old Amy is faced with a terrible dilemma when her eleven-year-old brother Dan suddenly disappears--keep on searching for the next Clue or try to find her brother.
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5 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 1,983 libraries worldwide
Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother and a series of "uncles" appear at his dorm, and before long he is caught up in criminal activity once again.
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9 editions published between and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,827 libraries worldwide
Chaos spreads when Douglas, the most eccentric sixth grader in Thaddeus G. Little Middle School, joins the Twinkie Squad, a special counselling group for problem students.
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11 editions published between and 2011 in English and French and held by 1,806 libraries worldwide
Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
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19 editions published between and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 1,634 libraries worldwide
Six kids, Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian, are thrown together against their will on a small boat that will make a one-month journey on the Pacific Ocean. They have all been sent for different reasons. Luke is taking his only choice besides being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a crime he didn't commit. Will and Lyssa are quarreling siblings sent by their parents, who hope the trip will teach them to get along better. J.J. was sent by a movie-star father after he pulled one too many pranks. Ian's parents hoped to cure him of his TV addiction. Charla was sent because she was having an athletic "burnout." But these six totally different kids have to learn to work together to survive a vicious storm and a shipwreck that leave them stranded in the middle of the ocean with no food, no water, and almost no hope for survival.
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16 editions published between and 2010 in English and German and held by 1,572 libraries worldwide
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.
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10 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 1,572 libraries worldwide
Aidan and Meg Falconers' parents are facing life in prison unless Aidan and Meg can prove their innocence, but first they must escape from a juvenile detention center and elude both the authorities and a sinister attacker who has his own reason to stop them.
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17 editions published between and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,526 libraries worldwide
Wild things happen at the South Middle School when Milo's science project, Henrietta the chicken, becomes the hockey team's mascot and their only chance for a winning season.
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17 editions published between and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 1,479 libraries worldwide
Six kids. One shipwreck. One deserted island. After their ship sinks, Luke, Ian, JJ, Sharla, Will, and Lyssa must find a way to survive. They have no food and very few supplies. They think they're all alone, but they're not. And that's even worse.
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21 editions published between and 2005 in English and held by 1,390 libraries worldwide
Eleven-year-old best friends Jeff and Wiley, who like to give nicknames to their classmates, try to find the right one for the new girl Cassandra, while adjusting to the football coach who has become their new teacher.
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15 editions published between and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,290 libraries worldwide
Rick becomes friends with the popular new boy, Jake Garrett, football player and host of superlative parties, and in the process discovers the true nature of his schoolmates and uncovers the mystery of Jake's past.
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8 editions published between and 2004 in English and French and held by 1,245 libraries worldwide
Four kids discover treasure at the bottom of the sea and try to remove it from the sunken ship it's in.
 
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