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Hi, Charley B.,

I’ll try to get to all your questions:

The characters are all fictional. That’s not to say a little bit of myself and the people I know can’t be in thetr too,but they’re basically made up. Names are easy. Everybody gets one. You just have to make them up. My favorite character is Mr. Kermit, who had to change so much to take the kids in hand. I have no favorites among my books, but I’m proud of the MASTERMINDS trilogy, and my 100th book,which was THE FORT. And THE UNTEACHABLES, of course!

And YES, getting praise like this from your whole class has really made my day! Thanks.

                                                                                                                        —–Gordon Korman—–