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Gordon Korman: This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall! (Paperback, 1990, Scholastic)

Bruno and Boots are always in trouble. So the Headmaster, aka "The Fish" decides it …

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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.