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Nellie grinned. I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world.Sweet, put in Dan. Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike.The au pair sighed. Bet...

Gordon Korman

Nellie grinned. I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world.Sweet, put in Dan. Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike.The au pair sighed. Bet...

Tags: dan cahill, dates, nellie gomez, romance, saladin, the39clues, venice

Amy turned to Nellie. Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?The au pair was wary. What kind of diversion?You could pretend to be lost, Dan proposed. The guy comes out to give you direct...

Gordon Korman

Amy turned to Nellie. Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?The au pair was wary. What kind of diversion?You could pretend to be lost, Dan proposed. The guy comes out to give you direct...

Tags: dan cahill, diversions, kleptomaniacs, music, nellie gomez, saladin, the39clues

About Author
Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian author of children's and young adult fiction books. Korman's books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide over a career spanning four decades and have appeared at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

Gordon Korman

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

Tags: amy, cahill

Don't have to see, the pilot grunted. knows the way.Funny name for an aircraft, Grace commented. Is it after your wife?My gun.Grace stared at him. You named your plane after a ?It was a very good gun...

Gordon Korman

Don't have to see, the pilot grunted. knows the way.Funny name for an aircraft, Grace commented. Is it after your wife?My gun.Grace stared at him. You named your plane after a ?It was a very good gun...

Tags: cahill, grace, gun, pilot, rising, vespers

The caterpillar, her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. It tastes like chicken.

Gordon Korman

The caterpillar, her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. It tastes like chicken.

Tags: cahill, dan

Sugar maple! Mary-Todd Holt knelt over her husband. Are you all right?Eisenhower sat up, and egg-size lump blooming on his crown. Of course I'm all right! he managed, his words slurred. You think a li...

Gordon Korman

Sugar maple! Mary-Todd Holt knelt over her husband. Are you all right?Eisenhower sat up, and egg-size lump blooming on his crown. Of course I'm all right! he managed, his words slurred. You think a li...

Tags: dan, eisenhower, holt, humor, mary todd, reagan, the39clues, threats

I think you're going to like these, she said, placing the stack on the table. The whole class spent Monday and Tuesday painting them up.Raymond and Sean lifted up the top poster and stared. ARSE PRESE...

Gordon Korman

I think you're going to like these, she said, placing the stack on the table. The whole class spent Monday and Tuesday painting them up.Raymond and Sean lifted up the top poster and stared. ARSE PRESE...

Tags: clever, humor, initials, posters, unfortunate acronym

Nellie's brow furrowed. The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?Dan grinned. I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer.

Gordon Korman

Nellie's brow furrowed. The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?Dan grinned. I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer.

Tags: equalizers, jonah wizard, nellie gomez, the39clues

The au pair was bug-eyed. What happened back there?It's not our fault! Dan babbled. Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!They're Benedictine monks! Nellie exclaimed. T...

Gordon Korman

The au pair was bug-eyed. What happened back there?It's not our fault! Dan babbled. Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!They're Benedictine monks! Nellie exclaimed. T...

Tags: cursing, dan cahill, humor, nellie gomez, the39clues

Why can't you just lie and cheat like the others? Dan snapped. Can't you just see that's better than being nice one minute and then turning around and selling us out? It may be very Cahill, but it ! G...

Gordon Korman

Why can't you just lie and cheat like the others? Dan snapped. Can't you just see that's better than being nice one minute and then turning around and selling us out? It may be very Cahill, but it ! G...

Tags: cahill, dan, grace

Nobody got me out, Nellie replied. They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them. A couple of idiots actually jumped off the front balcony. Can...

Gordon Korman

Nobody got me out, Nellie replied. They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them. A couple of idiots actually jumped off the front balcony. Can...

Tags: humor, jonah wizard, nellie gomez, the39clues

We didn't stow away! Dan protested. You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!Good point, Ian agreed. Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.

Gordon Korman

We didn't stow away! Dan protested. You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!Good point, Ian agreed. Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.

Tags: dan cahill, humor, ian kabra, venice

Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947On registration day at taxidermy schoolI distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed mooseMove.

Gordon Korman

Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947On registration day at taxidermy schoolI distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed mooseMove.

Tags: humor, moose, poetry, school, taxidermy, taxidermy school

Oh, no- They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Ch...

Gordon Korman

Oh, no- They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Ch...

Tags: joke, jonah wizard, mistake, translation

The greatest gift you can give anyone is high expectations.

Gordon Korman

The greatest gift you can give anyone is high expectations.

Which was still pretty ill.

Gordon Korman

Which was still pretty ill.

And then the cold muzzle of a dart gun at the back of her neck erased all other brain activity.

Gordon Korman

And then the cold muzzle of a dart gun at the back of her neck erased all other brain activity.

London never gets this hot, moaned Ian. At least, not since the great fire of 1666.

Gordon Korman

London never gets this hot, moaned Ian. At least, not since the great fire of 1666.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Gordon Korman

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Brilliant as he was, Jake was not a Cahill, and he couldn't possibly understand the lesson they'de learned in the search for the 39 Clues. There was no point worrying about what might have happened. A...

Gordon Korman

Brilliant as he was, Jake was not a Cahill, and he couldn't possibly understand the lesson they'de learned in the search for the 39 Clues. There was no point worrying about what might have happened. A...