Dork in Disguise-- Gorman

Dork in Disguise -- Gorman

Dork in Disguise by Carol Gorman

by Carol Gorman

A novel for young readers.

Listed on the Missouri Association of School Librarian's Mark Twain Awards 2001-2002 list.
Listed on the Oklahoma's 2001-2002 Sequoyah Children's Book Award masterlist of nineteen titles.

Available in Paperback
ALA Booklist said the book was hilarous. Kirkus Reviews said it was a "funny tale meant to snag those who care about cool and those who pretend they don't." Now Dork in Disguise is available as a HarperTrophy paperback.

Dork in Disguise

Jerry Flack was a dork but this new school in a new town would give him a new start. He'd be a cool kid. All summer he had spent his time studying all the right magazines, getting hair gel, making his clothes look just right -- and now he was ready to be the cool kid he knew he was.
Not too long into the school year he finds himself fighting the urge to put his glasses back on and to top it all off he is dating the wrong girl. Will his new classmates find out that he is really a dork? And does Jerry really care?

Read the first chapter.

Reviewers say:

Booklist

"If Bill Nye the Science Guy ever inspired a novel, it is this one about Jerry Flack, the sixth-grade science whiz who reinvents himself as one of the cool kids at his new middle school. The book gives realistic atttention to the preteen school scene. Gorman also works in some way-cool science facts that come to life in Jerry's science project: a hovercraft built from a vacuum-cleaner engine. Go ahead and encourage kids to try this at home." Recommended. -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Humor keeps the plot jumping, yet the novel's resolution is admirably restrained. A breezy, enjoyable book." -- The Horn Book

"Wonderfully accurate novel. Gorman not only knows how to set up a good story, with dialogue that is neither trite nor unnecessarily brazen, she also understands, or never forgot, the social structure of pre-teen cliques." -- Washington Post

Gorman, Carol. Dork in Disguise. HarperCollins, 1999. ISBN 0-06-024866-1; 0-06-024867-X (lib bdg); 0-06-440891-4 (pbk).

Connections to Make

Jerry Flack makes a hovercraft using a vacuum-cleaner engine. Check out this site that provides a procedure for making a hovercraft.
If you can devise another method for making a hovercraft, write the directions.

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