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Gemini Award-winner Tundra author Susin Nielsen got her start feeding cast and crew muffins and bologna sandwiches on the popular television series, Degrassi Junior High. They hated her food (a fact that’s memorialized forever in a poem the cast wrote: “An ode to Susin, the Bran Muffin Queen, we eat them, we die, then we turn green”). Luckily for Susin, they saw a spark in a spec script she wrote. Nielsen went on to pen sixteen episodes of the hit television show, and four of the books in the Degrassi book series. Since then, Nielsen, who has received two Canadian Screenwriter...  Read More



book cover Dear George Clooney
Written by Susin Nielsen

Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family - Marriage & Divorce; Juvenile Fiction - Family - Stepfamilies; Juvenile Fiction - Family | 978-0-88776-977-1 (0-88776-977-2) | August 2010 | 20.99

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book cover Dear George Clooney
Written by Susin Nielsen

eBook | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family - Marriage & Divorce; Juvenile Fiction - Family - Stepfamilies; Juvenile Fiction - Family | 978-0-88776-978-8 (0-88776-978-0) | August 2010 | 20.99

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book cover Word Nerd
Written by Susin Nielsen

Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Boys & Men; Juvenile Fiction - Concepts - Words; Juvenile Fiction - Family | 978-0-88776-990-0 (0-88776-990-X) | May 2010 | 14.99

Twelve-year-old Ambrose is a glass-half-full kind of guy. A self-described “friendless nerd,” he moves from place to place every couple of years with his overprotective mother, Irene. When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich — even though they know he has... [read more]

book cover Word Nerd
Written by Susin Nielsen

eBook | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Boys & Men; Juvenile Fiction - Concepts - Words; Juvenile Fiction - Family | 978-1-77049-075-8 (1-77049-075-2) | January 2010 | 20.99

Twelve-year-old Ambrose is a glass-half-full kind of guy. A self-described “friendless nerd,” he moves from place to place every couple of years with his overprotective mother, Irene. When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich — even though they know he has... [read more]

book cover Word Nerd
Written by Susin Nielsen

Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Boys & Men; Juvenile Fiction - Concepts - Words; Juvenile Fiction - Family | 978-0-88776-875-0 (0-88776-875-X) | September 2008 | 20.99

Twelve-year-old Ambrose is a glass-half-full kind of guy. A self-described “friendless nerd,” he moves from place to place every couple of years with his overprotective mother, Irene. When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich — even though they know he has... [read more]

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