A SEMESTER IN THE LIFE OF A GARBAGE BAG (Gordon Korman) - January 16/12

Gordon Korman strikes again with this absolutely insipid book revolving around a smartalecky teen's efforts at winning a trip to Greece. Korman has suffused the novel with hopelessly quirky characters and an emphasis on dull plot twists, including an ongoing subplot about the school's faulty power supply. Who cares?? It's relatively well written, but gosh, I was just bored from start to finish. *1/2 out of ****