Quotes from Gordon Korman

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY On December 16, 1773, American colonists met with representatives of the British government in Boston to discuss turning the thirteen American colonies into a separate country. Tea was served.

Why don't you share how you hurt your leg? I'm guessing it was a football injury." "No way," Barnstorm scoffs. "The tackler isn't born who can catch me. I was changing a lightbulb in the bathroom and I slipped off the toilet seat.

Maybe it's simpler than that: If the biggest jerks form a club, everything starts to fall apart when one of them isn't quite so jerky anymore.

The tradition at C Average was to nominate the biggest loser in the building.

We can't change the past. All we can do is work hard to make things right in the future.

We are more than merely Lucian, Janus, Ekaterina, Tomas, and Madrigal. We are all Cahills, and we are under attack.

actually saw myself finishing out the year in this class I don't belong in, in this school I don't really go to. And in this town where my only connection is the fact that my parents grew up here.

We all do jerky things," she assures me. "It's what you do next that matters.

It's like Eldridge Kestenbaum always says - you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Horse manure catches more flies than honey and vinegar put together, retorted Mark.

Link, there hasn't been time for me to give you much of a formal Jewish education. But you might remember from Sunday school some of the stories of the Old Testament. God forgives us—and by doing that, God shows us how to forgive each other. Even more important, those of us who've been forgiven spend the rest of our lives trying to be worthy of that forgiveness.

Dark hair, olive skin, handsome features. It always made Amy guilty to find him good-looking. Ian Kabra.

You have no idea what it's like when you can't trust your own parent. He was so startled that he retreated a half step. The truth was that Ian knew exactly what it was like.

He smiled. It took a special girl to make Ian Kabra fear for his life.

with you forever. I refuse to put the permanent stamp of organized

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. As long as you were still alive, still in the hunt, that was a good day…. Amy and Dan lived in the moment, because hard experience had taught them that there was no other time.

Things are finally starting to go our way

I'm going to puke, Dan threatened in the darkness. Such a lovely word, Ian commented miserably. Have you considered something more civilized, like 'throw up' or perhaps 'give back'? In my hood, they call it 'tossing a sidewalk pizza,' Jonah managed. Your 'hood'? Hamilton echoed from his place at the wheel. You live in a row of twenty-million-dollar palaces. Do you even have sidewalks?

As a patient, he's as cooperative as a panther with a thorn in its paw. Eli and Tori have to hold his head steady or I might cut his throat by mistake. Or maybe it wouldn't be by mistake.

How can Luthor win without you?" asked the woman from the Canine Chronicle. "Because he is the best dog by many levels of magnitude.

What's that like? 1) Picture being jailer to Harry Houdini; 2) multiply by five hundred.

He was the only parent I'll ever have.

And I see red. The big tray of mashed potatoes is in my hands before I even realize what I'm doing. I heave it over the plastic sneeze guard, raining the entire load down on the advancing cop.

Control is out of the question.

from the stint in phys ed. Somebody has to be in the remotest classroom of the entire building, but I decide to be offended by it. It's just another part of the conspiracy to force me out.