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Another heart-warming novel from the award-winning author Susin Nielsen. Felix Knutsson is thirteen and secretly lives with his mom and pet gerbil in a van. His mom swears it's temporary, but as the months pass by, how long can Felix hide his homelessness from his friends?

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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 -- her subjects serve her delicious meals, clean up her "delicate matters" and wait on her hand and foot. Life is good . . . until Darryl arrives. Princess Puffybottom thinks he's disgusting, horri...

Seven-year-old Lillian and her mother have left Lillian's abusive father and moved into a family shelter, leaving behind all of their possessions. Every day that Lillian becomes anxious about what to bring to class show-and-tell. She soon realizes that imagination can make anything magical, even an ordinary string of beads. Full color.

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Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a TV game show reveals that he and his mother are homeless. Winning the cash prize could make everything okay again. But things don't turn out the way Fellix expects in this moving story about the power of friendship and community.

Ever since tragedy struck her family, Petula has learned to see danger everywhere - whether it's crossing the road or eating a poached egg. Petula's determined not to let her guard down, even if this means allowing herself to be ruled by anxiety and grief, and losing her best friend.Then Jacob walks into her therapy group. Strikingly tall and confident, he's survived a different kind of disaster and still come out smiling. At first Petula is r...

When Petula de Wilde, who is anything but wild, meets Jacob in their school's dorky art therapy program, his friendship (and something more) helps her overcome intense fears since her sister died. However, Jacob has a secret of his own.

Ambrose zit thuis. Zijn moeder wil niet meer dat hij naar school gaat, omdat zijn 'vrienden' hem bijna hebben vermoord door een pinda tussen zijn boterham te stoppen. Niet dat Ambrose dat erg vindt - door zijn merkwaardigeuiterlijk, het feit dat hij zo vaak verhuist en zijn talent om altijd de verkeerde dingen te zeggen was hij al niet erg geliefd op school (understatement van het jaar). Nee, Ambrose voelt zich veel fijner in het souterrain v...

Sotto il cappello con le orecchie da gatto che si è fatta da sé, Petula nasconde una buona dose di cinismo, la convinzione che a essere pessimisti ci si azzecca sempre e - soprattutto - il dolore per una perdita che sembra impossibile da superare. Certo, è stato un incidente. Ma i pessimisti dovrebbero prevedere gli incidenti, e Petula proprio non ce la fa a non sentirsi in colpa. A scuola la obbligano a partecipare a un gruppo di arteterapia ...

Ashley: A essere del tutto sincera al cento per cento, io proprio non lo capisco come abbia fatto la mamma a innamorarsi di Léonard. Ma dato che non si era mai accorta che mio padre è gay, forse non dovrei stupirmi tanto. Solo che ora tocca a me subirne le conseguenze: Léonard e quel nanerottolo di suo figlio Stewpidart si sono trasferiti a casa nostra! Aiuto! I miei genitori vogliono rovinarmi la vita! Stewart: Al mondo ci sono molti misteri ...

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 a deathly allergy — Ambrose is philosophical. Irene, however, is not and decides that Ambrose will be home-schooled.Alone in the evenings wh...

With Violet's father having relocated to LA to be with a younger woman and improvements on his children, Violet sets out to get her mum the perfect new husband in order to exact revenge on her dad. Described in "Publishers Weekly" as 'sassy and candid'.

It's seven-year-old Lillian's first day at a new school, and she's got butterflies in her tummy, but those butterflies turn into grasshoppers when she learns she has to bring something for Show and Tell at the end of the week! Lillian and her mother have just moved away from Lillian's abusive father and into a family shelter, leaving behind all of their possessions. Every day that Lillian anxiously watches her classmates bring toys with which ...

Thirteen-year-old wrestling fanatic Henry used to have a normal life. Now, his therapist wants him to keep a journal so he can express his feelings about what happened. Henry has moved with his dad to a new city, where nobody knows their name. He lives off a diet of pizza, whilst hiding from the comically overbearing neighbours and avoiding being an obvious target for bullies at his new school. But then he meets Farley and Alberta, social misf...

Susin Nielsen got her start writing for popular television series, Degrassi Junior High. Since then, she¿s written for many Canadian TV shows and her young adult novels have received considerable critical acclaim. Word Nerd and My Messed-Up Life won multiple Young Readers¿ Choice Awards. The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen won the UKLA Award, the prestigious Governor General¿s Literary Award, the Canadian Library Association¿s Children¿s ...

A new YA novel from the author of "We Are All Made Of Molecules". Ambrose Bukowski is a friendless nerd. But when bullies try to kill him by putting peanut in his sandwich, it's his mother who has the extreme reaction.

Exploring heartbreak and tragedy in this new novel from award-winning author, Susin Nielsen. Petula has succumbed to a life of misery since the death of her baby sister, but when she meets a Bionic Man at her art therapy class, is she prepared to let her guard down? Ages: 12+