SLCL and the Novel Neighbor Host Popular Middle Grade Author Gordon Korman
St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Reading Garden Series for Young Audiences and the Novel Neighbor are pleased to present bestselling middle-grade author Gordon Korman. Korman will discuss his latest middle grade adventure “Slugfest.”
The event will take place on Thursday, January 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the Grant’s View Branch, 9700 Musick Road, St. Louis MO 63123.
The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the event from the Novel Neighbor.
From bestselling author Gordon Korman comes a hilarious new story about a group of underdogs who come together when they are forced to attend summer school—for failing PE.
Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School—so good, in fact, that he’s already playing on the high school’s JV sports teams. Imagine his shock when he learns that his JV practices have kept him from earning a state-mandated credit for eighth-grade PE. To graduate, he has to take Physical Education Equivalency—PEE, also known as “Slugfest”—in summer school.
Yash gets to know his fellow “slugs”: Kaden, an academic superstar who’s physically hopeless; twins Sarah and Stewart, who are too busy trying to kill each other to do any real PE; Jesse, a notorious prankster; Arabella, who protests everything; and Cleo, a natural athlete who has sworn off sports.
But when one of them tries to blow the lid off a scandal that could make all their time in summer school a waste, Yash is forced to take drastic action.
Teaming up with the most hapless crew in school can really surprise a person. And their teacher might be hiding the biggest surprise yet. . . .
Gordon Korman published his first book at age fourteen and since then has written more than ninety middle grade and teen novels. Favorites include the New York Times bestselling “Ungifted,” “Supergifted,” “The Unteachables,” “Pop,” “Schooled,” and the Masterminds series.
Program sites are accessible. With at least two weeks' notice, accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. Call 314-994-3300 or contact us.