Ironically, Korman's (Son of the Mob) usually smoothly delivered humor often stumbles in this tale about an 11-year-old whose "overpowering ambition" is to be a professional stand-up comic. When he ...

“I got an early start,” said Gordon Korman, with modesty and no exaggeration, about the fact that The Fort, a middle-grade novel due from Scholastic Press on June 28, brings his tally of novels for ...