![]() 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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