The two can't stand their new roommates and decide to meet at a cannon at night to discuss ways of getting back into their old room together. Bruno moves in with the school genius, Elmer Drimsdale, while Boots is placed with wealthy hypochondriac George Wexford-Smith III. They are constantly under the watch of Headmaster William Sturgeon, nicknamed “The Fish” due to his surname but also due to the trademark stern, fishy-like stare he uses on his students whenever he disapproves of them.įollowing the abduction of an overweight cat mascot of a rival hockey team (in an attempt to demoralize them), Sturgeon forbids them from seeing each other and separates them. Best friends, they play mischievous pranks on the school, faculty and other students. Across the road is a girls' boarding school, Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School For Young Ladies. The two main characters, Bruno Walton and Melvin “Boots” O'Neal, are small-time troublemakers who share a room at the Macdonald Hall boarding school some miles north of Toronto, circa 1980. In spring 2017, This Can't Be Happening was released as the second film of the series. In the 2010s, Aircraft Pictures has produced the Bruno & Boots series of television film adaptations of Korman's novel series. Justin Trudeau described it as "a wonderfully funny story that appeals to the adolescent in all of us" and as the book that awoke his interest in reading. The book was the focus of an episode of the television series Great Canadian Books in 2010. Cover photos and illustrations were done by Rodrigo Moreno, Luis Borba and Yüksel Hassan. The rest of the books in the series would all eventually be republished. The title was also shortened to This Can't Be Happening!.
The book was republished in 2003 with a new look and updated text (updated to match today's economy and slang).
It is dedicated to his English teacher, Mr.
It is the first installment of the Macdonald Hall series, and was the first written work of Korman. This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall is a 1978 novel by Gordon Korman.
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