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 * Scratch Beginnings**


 * Jake, Reinvented**



“I always start off with something real, but then I unleash my imagination to make it funnier, more interesting, and a better story. To be honest, by the time a book is done, you can’t recognize much of the real-life part. It’s been changed too much. But I never could have gotten there without it.”--Korman
 * About Gordon Korman**

This Canadian author has written and published over 50 books from his very first at the age of 15 with //This Can’t be Happening at Macdonald Hall.// Scholastic ended up publishing his first 20 books. Scholastic and Hyperian Press continue to publish his young adult novels to this day. He began writing humorous young adult novels at first but quickly jumped to writing suspense with his first trilogy called //Island//. This trilogy he feels was the most difficult to write out of his entire bibliography. Korman relocated himself to New York to study film and film writing where he met his wife. Although he has published a hefty amount of young adult literature and children's books he is signed on to write several more young adult novels and complete a series of fictional works entitled //On the Run.// Today he continues to write and participate in various book tours. He and his wife reside in Long Island, New York with their three children.

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