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1984 novel by Gordon Korman

No Coins, Please
Cover (1984 PB edition)
Author	Gordon Korman
Language	English
Genre	Adventure
Publisher	Scholastic Canada Ltd.
Publication date	1984/2006
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	184
ISBN	0-590-33466-2

No Coins, Please is a 1984 children's novel by Gordon Korman. The book is recommended for grades 6-8, and 820L on the Lexile measure.

Plot

Juniortours is an outfit that drives children across America during the summer months. When Group Ambulance's Artie Geller, a precocious 11-year-old con artist from Montreal signs on, counselors Rob and Dennis find they have more than the usual summer job on their hands. From the streets of New York City to the casinos of Las Vegas, Artie proves as slippery as ever.

Reception

Hazlitt has called it a "Canadian classic". CM: A Reviewing Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People , the journal of the Canadian Library Association, faulted its "rather wooden characters" and its "repetitive" plot, but noted that younger readers would likely ignore these aspects.

In 2017, Nicole Dieker revisited the book for The Billfold. Dieker noted that what makes the book "delightful" is "how logical Artie's whole enterprise is", and praised Korman for revealing that Artie had not been able to avoid being noticed by law enforcement; however, she also emphasized that upon rereading the book as an adult, it became more clear to her that "Artie isn’t a good person".

Publication history

— (1984). No Coins, Please (1st HC ed.). Richmond Hill, Ontario: Scholastic-Tab. ISBN 0-59071-444-9.
— (1984). No Coins, Please. Scholastic. ISBN 0590334662.
— (1989). No Coins, Please. Scholastic. ISBN 0590437097.
— (1991). No Coins, Please. Scholastic Canada. ISBN 0590442082.
— (2005). No Coins, Please. Scholastic Canada Ltd. ISBN 9780439961721. Retrieved 15 November 2017.

References

^ "What Childrens Literature teaches us about money - Gordon Korman's No Coins Please". thebillboard.com. 4 January 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
"No Coins Please by Gordon Korman". scholastic.com. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
Hune-Brown, Nicholas (31 March 2016). "Low Stakes Forever". Hazlitt. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
Henaut, Pauline (January 1985). "No Coins, Please". Canadian Materials. 13 (1). Retrieved 15 November 2017.

External links

"No Coins Please". Gordon Korman. Retrieved 15 November 2017.

Reviews

MondoMolly (25 June 2015). "No Coins, Please By Gordon Korman". Lost Classics of Teen Lit, 1939-1989. Retrieved 15 November 2017.

Novels by Gordon Korman

Macdonald Hall

This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall (1978)
Go Jump in the Pool (1979)
Beware the Fish! (1980)
The War with Mr. Wizzle (1982)
The Zucchini Warriors (1988)
Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood (1991)
Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall (1995)

Other series

Bugs Potter	Who is Bugs Potter? (1980) Bugs Potter LIVE at Nickaninny (1983)
Jeremy Bloom	The D- Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About School, Homework, and Life (Sort Of) (1992) The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About Winning, Losing, and Being a Good Sport (Sometimes) (1996)
Monday Night Football	The Quarterback Exchange (1997) Running Back Conversion (1997) Super Bowl Switch (1997) Heavy Artillery (1997) Ultimate Scoring Machine (1998) NFL Rules! Bloopers, Pranks, Upsets, and Touchdowns (1998)
Slapshots	The Stars From Mars (1999) All-Mars All-Stars/The Dream Team (1999) The Face-off Phony (2000) Cup Crazy (2000) 4-in-1 Slapshots: The Complete Collection (2008)
Nose Pickers	Nose Pickers from Outer Space! (1999) Planet of the Nose Pickers (2000) Your Mummy Is a Nose Picker (2000) Invasion of the Nose Pickers (2001) 4-in-1 The Ultimate Nose-Picker Collection (2006)
Island	Shipwreck (2000) Survival (2001) Escape (2001) 3-in-1 Island Trilogy Bind-Up Book (2006)
Son of the Mob	Son of the Mob (2002) Son of the Mob 2: Hollywood Hustle (2004)
Everest	The Contest (2002) The Climb (2002) The Summit (2002)
Dive	The Discovery (2002) The Deep (2003) The Danger (2003)
On the Run	Chasing the Falconers (2005) The Fugitive Factor (2005) Now You See Them, Now You Don't (2005) The Stowaway Solution (2005) Public Enemies (2005) Hunting the Hunter (2006)
Kidnapped	The Abduction (2006) The Search (2006) The Rescue (2006)
Swindle	Swindle (2008) Zoobreak (2009) Framed (2010) Showoff (2012) Hideout (2013) Jackpot (2014) Unleashed (2015) Jingle (2016)
The 39 Clues	One False Note (2008) The Emperor's Code (2010) Vespers Rising (2011) The Medusa Plot (2011) Flashpoint (2014)
Titanic	Unsinkable (2011) Collision Course (2011) S.O.S. (2011)
Ungifted	Ungifted (2012) Supergifted (2018)
Hypnotists	The Hypnotists (2013) Memory Maze (2014) The Dragonfly Effect (2015)
Masterminds	Masterminds (2015) Masterminds: Criminal Destiny (2016) Masterminds: Payback (2017)

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A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag (1987)
Radio 5th Grade (1989)
Losing Joe's Place (1990)
The Twinkie Squad (1992)
The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993)
Why Did the Underwear Cross the Road (1994)
The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1996)
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire (1997)
The Sixth Grade Nickname Game (1998)
No More Dead Dogs (2002)
Maxx Comedy: The Funniest Kid in America (2003)
Jake, Reinvented (2003)
Born To Rock (2006)
Schooled (2007)
The Juvie Three (2008)
Pop (2009)
Slacker (2016)
Restart (2017)
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The Unteachables (2019)
Notorious (2019)
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