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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. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.Gordon Korman
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Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.Gordon Korman
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He watched in awe as she stacked up an enormous armload of music. "There, " she finished, slapping Frank Zappa's Greatest Hits on top of the pile. "That should do for a start." "You are a music lover, " said the wide-eyed cashier. "No, I'm a kleptomaniac." And she dashed out the door. He was so utterly shocked that it took him a moment to run after her. With a meaningful nod in the direction of the astounded Cahills, she barreled down the cobblestone street with her load. "Fermati! " shouted the cashier, scrambling in breathless pursuit. Nellie let a few CDs drop and watched with satisfaction over her shoulder as the clerk stopped to pick them up. The trick would be to keep the chase going just long enough for Amy and Dan to search Disco Volante. Yikes, she reflected suddenly, I'm starting to think like a Cahill.. And if she was nuts enough to hang around this family, it was only going to get worse.Gordon Korman
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I've taken care of it, " I said My father looked at me, shocked. Then I realized "taken care of" had a very specific meaning in his line of work." No, no, I mean he's gone.Gordon Korman
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For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.Gordon Korman
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You did a politics project on a government that got overthrown on the due date? Man, did anybody ever tell you you've got no luck?"" I suspected it, " said Raymond ironically.Gordon Korman
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You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you're too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle-earth. So what's your style? Three chords, cranked out fast and loud and distorted because your instruments are crap and you can't play them worth a damn. And you scream your lungs out to cover up the fact that you can't sing. It should suck, but here's the thing - it doesn't. Rock and roll can be so full of itself, but not this. It's simple and angry and raw. .Gordon Korman
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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 directions, and we slip inside."" That's the most sexist idea I've ever heard, " Nellie said harshly. "I'm female, so I have to be clueless. He's male, so he's got a great sense of direcGordon Korman
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They don't have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and you're supposed to drop what you're doing and rush off to a different room with a different teacher to do something completely different! How can anybody learn like that?Gordon Korman
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I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a dietGordon Korman
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But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.Gordon Korman
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Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899– ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947On registration day at taxidermy school I distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed moose Move.Gordon Korman
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The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.Gordon Korman
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For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.Gordon Korman