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March 26, 2026 at 07:04 pm Reply
Sasquatshhh
10 whole parts of obsessedly reading everything Gordon Korman has ever written. Wow! Since last time, I have read:
- On the Run The Stowaway Solution
- On The Run Public Enemies
- On the Run Hunting the Hunter
- Jake, Reinvented
- Island Shipwreck
- Island Survival
- Island Escape
- Who is Bugs Potter?
- The Juvie Three
I thought On The Run was spectacular. SPOILER WARNING--Frank being Hairless Joe was CRAZY! Question--Is ON THE RUN or KIDNAPPED chronologically first? Maybe you should combine thier pages on the site, I had no clue they featured the same characters until it said so in the back of one of the On The Run books to read KIDNAPPED as well.Island was splendid as well-always love Robinson Crusoe survival stories. I was wondering--did you purposely make Island, Dive, and Everest fit into a set? Also, in the best books there is a moment when I have to put the book down and take a breather, because the craziest thing has just been revealed. The atomic bomb on Island was one of those moments. Bugs Potter-- I detested, loathed, hated Bugs to begin with, what with him being a unwitting jerk. But I somehow found myself attached to him by the end. He truly is The Most! Juvie Three was excellent as well. (P.S. why do so many of your books have framed juvenile delinquents? (Framed, Island, Juvie Three, etc.))

So in all I've read:
- MasterMinds
- MasterMinds Criminal Destiny
- MasterMinds Payback
- 39 Clues One False Note
- Old School
- Slugfest
- Mixed Up
- The Superteacher Project
- Operation Do-Over
- Linked
- Unplugged
- Secrets of Splat Night (a Restart Story)
- Notorious
- Level Thirteen
- The Unteachables
- Slacker
- Ungifted
- Supergifted
- A Reasonable Sum
- Homicide Meets Mr. Gold Medal
- Wimp of Sparta
- Hamish MacTavish Is Eating a Bus
- The Trophy
- Restart
- The Hypnotists
- Swindle
- Snoop
- Faker
- The Fort
- War Stories
- Memory Maze
- The Dragonfly Effect
- 39 Clues The Emperor’s Code
- Whatshisface
- Schooled
- Pop
- Zoobreak
- Framed
- Showoff
- Hideout
- Jackpot
- Unleashed
- Jingle
- 39 Clues Unstoppable Flashpoint
- 39 Clues Cahills vs. Vespers The Medusa Plot
- Unsinkable
- Collision Course
- S.O.S.
- The 6th Grade Nickname Game
- The Chicken Doesn’t Skate
- Hypergifted
- Everest The Contest
- Everest The Climb
- Everest The Summit
- One False Note Graphic Novel
- This Can’t Possibly Be Happening To Gordon Korman
- Radio Fifth Grade
- On the Run Chasing The Falconers
- On the Run The Fugitive Factor
- Why Did The Underwear Cross The Road?
- Born To Rock
- On the Run Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
- The Toilet Paper Tigers
- No More Dead Dogs
- Maxx Comedy: The Funniest Kid in America
- On the Run The Stowaway Solution
- On The Run Public Enemies
- On the Run Hunting the Hunter
- Jake, Reinvented
- Island Shipwreck
- Island Survival
- Island Escape
- Who is Bugs Potter?
- The Juvie Three
75 in all?!? ONLY 34 LEFT!?! Even I had to sit down after that realization! I am 3/4 through!

So, those 34 I have left are:
- 39 Clues Vespers Rising
- Kidnapped The Abduction
- Kidnapped The Search
- Kidnapped The Rescue
- Dive The Discovery
- Dive The Deep
- Dive The Danger
- This Can’t Be Happening at MacDonald Hall
- MacDonald Hall Go Jump In The Pool
- MacDonald Hall Beware The Fish
- MacDonald Hall The Wizzle War (also The War With Mr. Wizzle)
- MacDonald Hall The Zucchini Warriors
- MacDonald Hall Lights Camera Disaster (or Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood)
- MacDonald Hall The Joke’s On Us (or Something Fishy At Macdonald Hall)
- Slapshots The Stars From Mars
- Slapshots The Dream Team (or All-Mars All-Stars)
- Slapshots The Face-off Phony
- Slapshots Cup Crazy
- Nose Pickers From Outer Space
- The Planet of The Nose Pickers
- Your Mummy’s a Nose Picker
- Invasion of the Nose Pickers
- Monday Night Football Club Quarterback Exchange: I Was John Elway
- Monday Night Football Club Running Back Conversion: I Was Barry Sanders
- Monday Night Football Club Super Bowl Switch: I Was Dan Marino
- Monday Night Football Club Heavy Artillery: I Was Junior Seau
- Monday Night Football Club Ultimate Scoring Machine: I Was Jerry Rice
- The D-Minus Poems of Jeremy Bloom
- The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom
- I Want To Go Home
- No Coins, Please
- The Twinkie Squad
- Bugs Potter: Live At Nickaninny
- Our Man Weston
- Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
- Losing Joe’s Place
- Son Of Interflux
- A Semester In The Life Of A Garbage Bag
- Don’t Care High
Prob gonna work through the stand-alones first, then the series. Catch ya next time!
March 26, 2026 at 07:12 pm Reply

Sasquatshhh

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ooh forgot to mention I got Island in a bind-up--wish there were more bind-ups for his trilogies! Also wanted to know why you made ON THE RUN 6 books when most of your series with one over-arcing story are only 3 books (Masterminds, Island, Titanic, Dive, Everest, Kidnapped, etc.)
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ooh forgot to mention I got Island in a bind-up--wish there were more bind-ups for his trilogies! Also wanted to know why you made ON THE RUN 6 books when most of your series with one over-arcing story are only 3 books (Masterminds, Island, Titanic, Dive, Everest, Kidnapped, etc.)
March 26, 2026 at 08:57 pm Reply

Raymond Jardine

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@Sasquatshhh: In addition to Island, several series are available as omnibus editions: Everest, Dive, Nose Pickers, Slapshots. There's also a non-series bindup called GAME ON! that includes THE CHICKEN DOESN'T SKATE and TOILET PAPER TIGERS.
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@Sasquatshhh: In addition to Island, several series are available as omnibus editions: Everest, Dive, Nose Pickers, Slapshots. There's also a non-series bindup called GAME ON! that includes THE CHICKEN DOESN'T SKATE and TOILET PAPER TIGERS.
March 26, 2026 at 09:34 pm Reply

Sasquatshhh

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Whoops! Thanks!
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Whoops! Thanks!
March 26, 2026 at 09:55 pm Reply

Luthor Savannah Spritz-o-Matic

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you should read the nose pickers series next.
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you should read the nose pickers series next.
March 26, 2026 at 09:56 pm Reply

Sasquatshhh

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I'll get to it eventually.
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I'll get to it eventually.
March 27, 2026 at 02:06 am Reply

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Sasquatshhh, I'm especially glad you liked ON THE RUN so much. (It came first, by the way.) I'd love to see it reissued -- it really didn't get much attention. --GK--
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Sasquatshhh, I'm especially glad you liked ON THE RUN so much. (It came first, by the way.) I'd love to see it reissued -- it really didn't get much attention. --GK--