Susin Nielsen

Degrassi Junior High

4 - Shane (1988)
7 - Melanie (1989)
8 - Wheels (1990)
10 - Snake (1991)

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  Shane
  

  • 1988
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  Degrassi Junior High - 4
  

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  Melanie
  

  • 1989
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  Degrassi Junior High - 7
  

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  Wheels
  

  • 1990
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  Degrassi Junior High - 8
  

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  Snake
  

  • 1991
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  Degrassi Junior High - 10
  

  Grade nine isn't turning out the way Snake planned. He makes the basketball team, but the captain wants to get him booted off. The prettiest girl at Degrassi thinks he's a geek, his marks are falling, and his brother has just announced that he's gay....

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  Word Nerd
  

  • Sep-2008
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  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 slippin...

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  Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom
  

  • Aug-2010
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  Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's youn...

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  The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
  

  • Sep-2012
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  Thirteen-year-old Henry's happy, ordinary life comes to an abrupt halt when his older brother Jesse picks up their father's hunting rifle and leaves the house one morning, before the family is awake. What follows shatters Henry's family, who are forc...

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  We Are All Made of Molecules
  

  • May-2015
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  Award-winning author Susin Nielsen has created two narrators who will steal your heart and make you laugh out loud. Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed “It” gi...

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  Optimists Die First
  

  • Feb-2017
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  Beware: Life ahead. Sixteen-year-old Petula de Wilde is anything but wild. A former crafting fiend with a happy life, Petula shut herself off from the world after a family tragedy. She sees danger in all the ordinary things, like crossing the str...

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  My Messed-Up Life
  

  • Jun-2018
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  No Fixed Address
  

  • Sep-2018
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  For fans of Wendelin van Draanen and Cynthia Lord, a touching and funny middle-grade story about family, friendship, and growing up when you're one step away from homelessness. Twelve-and-three-quarter-year-old Felix Knutsson has a knack for trivi...

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  Princess Puffybottom . . . and Darryl
  

  • Feb-2019
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  What's a pampered cat to do now that she has to compete for attention with an ill-mannered puppy? Award-winning author Susin Nielsen delights in this laugh-a-minute twist on the classic sibling rivalry story.Princess Puffybottom has the perfect life ...

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  Tremendous Things
  

  • May-2021
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  A funny and heartfelt story about learning how to rise above your most embarrassing moment while staying true to yourself--with the help of old friends, new friends, and some cheesy poetry.At the start of ninth grade, Wilbur Nuñez-Knopf is hoping fo...

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  All Cats Welcome
  

  • May-2022
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  In this sweet and affirming picture book, two cats discover they don’t need to share a language to become friends.Leonard adores his human. “Stay! Let’s play!” he says when it’s time to leave for work. His human just hears “Meow.” Somet...

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Award-Winning Books by Susin Nielsen

Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom
2012 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award -- Young Readers
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
2012 Governor General's Literary Award -- Children's Literature
Word Nerd
2010 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award -- Young Readers