This Can't Be Happening At Macdonald Hall

This Can't Be Happening At Macdonald Hall was the first book that Gordon Korman ever published. It was originally written as a school assignment, but Gordon's teacher urged him to publish it. He was 12 or 13 years old around the time that it was first published.

The setting of this book is the prestigious boarding school for boys, Macdonald Hall. It focuses on the characters Bruno Walton and Melvin (Boots) O'Neal. In the book, best friends Bruno and Boots are separated by their principal, Headmaster Sturgeon (The Fish), and go to crazy lengths to stop this catastrophe.