Gordon Korman

This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall

Maggie Gordon

I'm sure I read most of the MacDonald Hall series when I was a kid. Though I don't remember the specifics, I do remember rereading more than a few. And now, as an adult, I find out the books were written by a teenager? That would have been so cool to know when I was younger! 

In any case, these are silly, but well loved Canadian classics.

This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall!

Chris Aldrich

** spoiler alert **
           Knowing that this was his first book and written when he was still a very young teenager, I didn't expect a whole lot from Korman. Given that I've enjoyed so many of his other books, I should have held him to much higher standards as he always seems to be able to deliver!

The balloon arriving at the school was a bit deus-ex-machina, but it played out so well both plot-wise and even comedic-ly--even tying in the flag incident at the start of the story--that who could fault him.

As they seem to be at the bottom of every prank at Macdonald Hall, the headmaster decides to separate roommates Bruno and Boots, but to little avail.

This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall

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