- Readers, Swimming pools, Juvenile fiction, Readers (Elementary)
York Academy has a pool; Macdonald Hall does not. While annoying, this has never bothered the Macdonald Hall students much...until some of the boys report that their parents believe that the richer sports opportunities available at York will prompt them to transfer their sons to Macdonald Hall's biggest rival. The boys scheme to get a pool...a better pool than York Academy.
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Classical in form, effortless, warm and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Gordon Korman
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 181
- Publisher
- Demco Media, Éditions Scholastic, Scholastic
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780590405324
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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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