- Humorous stories, Plays, Football, Fiction
Nobody understands Wallace Wallace. This reluctant school football hero has been suspended from the team for writing an unfavorable book report of Old Shep, My Pal. But Wallace won't tell a lie -- he hated every minute of the book!
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Comic, spare, warm and effortless.
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- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Gordon Korman
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 180
- Publisher
- Hyperion Book CH, Turtleback Books, Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781484798447
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“When my dad was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, he once rescued eight Navy SEALs who were stranded behind enemy lines.”
Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec. In 1970, he relocated with his parents to Thornhill, Ontario. In 7th grade, he wrote a work that went on to become his first novel in a school writing assignment. It was published under the title *This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall* in 1978, when Korman was 14 years old. He wrote and published another four books while in high school. After high school, he moved to New York City where he studied film and film writing at New York University. In 1985 he received his B.A. in Dramatic and Visual Writing. He has written more than 75 books. He lives in Great Neck, New York, with his wife and three children.
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