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Natalia
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Posted: April 06 2011 at 5:25pm \| IP Logged

I am looking for opinion on these authors:

Allan Zullo- he has some interesting sounding non fiction books
Allan Zullo's Amazon page

Gordon Korman
Gordon Korman

I am looking into ordering from a Scholastic Book Club flyer and books by those authors caught my eyes.

Thanks for any opinions,

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Posted: April 06 2011 at 6:05pm \| IP Logged

The early Gordon Korman books are a lot of fun. I absolutely loved them and still occasionally reread the ones I own.

I've not read most of his later works (after about 1991 going by his website biblography) so I can't comment about those other then I've read varying opinions about them.

BTW the publisher reissued a number of his earlier works updating the technology used (for example listening to a CD player instead of walkman). Fortunately it's been just a bit silly rather then actually harming the stories.

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Posted: April 06 2011 at 9:41pm \| IP Logged

I have read a few Gordon Korman books. No More Dead Dogs is a family favorite. It's pretty harmless (and lots of fun) except for a few references to a lying Dad's tall tales and a secondary character's attempt to make herself attractive via a teen magazine's suggestions (which are clearly silly - but this character does get crushes on boys and tries to use makeup and conversational techniques to attract them). Some of his later books should be pre-read (the ones about the son of the Mob, for ex.).

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Posted: April 09 2011 at 10:11am \| IP Logged

Thanks for the response. Ekbell, unfortunately our library only has the latest ones.
Nancy, I placed a hold on No More Dead Dogs. Thanks for the recommendation.

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