panEmbarrassingly silly, but it appeared in my book box and has a #ProperNounInTheTitle. Light fiction about boys' hijinks in a private school, very popular when I was a kid, written by a 14-year-old. I thought of sending it to my nine-year-old nephew in England, but can't bring myself to send him anything that includes a “panty raid,“ even if the girls are the co-planners. Some things don't bear the test of time. #Booked2023
It makes me so happy that one of my son‘s favorite authors was also one of my childhood favorites.
Here's the Keynote speaker from the NYS School Librarian's annual conference Gordon Korman. Sort of. His flight was cancelled due to weather so he skyped in. (This is a cardboard cut out.) He was very funny, too! The book blurbed here is his first. He wrote it when he was in 7th grade. #authorfacsimile
#booktober catch-up 3 for 1! #bookssetinaschool #setinaschool. I was in middle school when this came out and I thought Korman a genius and the book hilarious. Just googled it and found out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thought so too! It doesn't have a super #longtitle but apparently in 2003 the publisher thought so and shortened it to This Can't Be Happening! And Bruno and Boots were great co- #sidekicks. @RealLifeReading
#funfridayphoto I remember loving this novel, the Scholastic edition, when I was maybe 12 years old. And then being gobsmacked to find out the author published it when he was only 14! Korman, a Canadian now at the age of 52 living in America, has written something like 80 novels, most of them YA.
This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall! | 
