Bruno decides to raise $150,000 to build the school a pool, partly by selling donated items and partly by selling school property, which gets him in trouble, yet again, with headmaster Sturgeon (Peter Keleghan), a man of high standards and remarkable forbearance. BRUNO AND BOOTS: GO JUMP IN THE POOL is based on a popular series of books by Canadian young adult author Gordon Korman, and it portrays a fairly polite existence in the halls of privileged private education. His best friend, Boots (Callan Potter), is the school's best swimmer, but he and the team have no pool to practice in and lose year after year to rival school, York. He loves to scheme and concoct pranks to make school more fun, which has not gone unnoticed by the school administration. Bruno (Jonny Gray) loves Macdonald Hall, the boarding school where he's a high school student.
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Original Publication Date: December 31, 2026 It skips so much of this passage that the listener has no idea whatsoever what triggered his recovery and no specific reference is made to what it was again in the text. But one of them skips over Mill's description of what got him out of his depression, which is probably the most important biographical moment in the entire book. There are a few little elisions that skip over small amounts of the text, which for the most part are forgivable little annoyances. It is amazing to me that this wasn't proofed properly. (It was worth it, because the accounts of this episode I had encountered elsewhere turn out to be wrong in their detail!) Anyway, I hope this inexcusable lacuna in the recording is amended in a revised edition published as soon as possible. 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