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Original Title: Word Nerd
ISBN: 088776875X (ISBN13: 9780887768750)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: CLA Book of the Year for Children Award Nominee (2009), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2011), Snow Willow Award (2010), Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award (2010), OLA Forest of Reading Red Maple Award for Fiction (2010)

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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 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 when Irene goes to work, Ambrose pesters Cosmo, the twenty-five-year-old son of the Greek landlords who live upstairs. Cosmo has just been released from jail for breaking and entering to support a drug habit. Quite by accident, Ambrose discovers that they share a love of Scrabble and coerces Cosmo into taking him to the West Side Scrabble Club, where Cosmo falls for Amanda, the club director. Posing as Ambrose’s Big Brother to impress her, Cosmo is motivated to take Ambrose to the weekly meetings and to give him lessons in self-defense. Cosmo, Amanda, and Ambrose soon form an unlikely alliance and, for the first time in his life, Ambrose blossoms. The characters at the Scrabble Club come to embrace Ambrose for who he is and for their shared love of words. There’s only one problem: Irene has no idea what Ambrose is up to.

In this brilliantly observed novel, author Susin Nielsen transports the reader to the world of competitive Scrabble as seen from the honest yet funny viewpoint of a boy who’s searching for acceptance and for a place to call home.

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Title:Word Nerd
Author:Susin Nielsen
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 256 pages
Published:September 9th 2008 by Tundra Books
Categories:Young Adult. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Childrens. Middle Grade. Contemporary

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So at one point, I am on the airplane tears in my eyes (tears of joy) and laughing out loud. This book is beautiful and simple and perfect for every middle school student. Ambrose is a quirky, funny, and relateable 12 year old that I could not help but fall in love with. A simple yet moving plot, characters you will love and hate-- this book needs to be read. If you liked Wonder and Diary of a Part Time Indian than get your hands on this book. I already miss Ambrose and Cosmo.

12 year old Ambrose is home-schooled by his over-protective mother. But when she is at work, befriends the ex-convict son of his landlord, and, unlikely as it seems, discovers a world of friendship, independence and adventure through a scrabble club. If you are a fan of Susin Nielsen, this book will not disappoint - it's written in her usual easy to read, funny style and has some quirky and lovable characters.

So charming! Ambrose, a 12-year-old living with his single mom, has his hands full with his peanut allergy (the cover says "this book is peanut-free"), his mom's overprotectiveness, and the school bullies. But when his mom starts working nights and enrolls him in online school, he's got some unsupervised time...time enough to meet the upstairs neighbors' son Cosmo, who has just gotten out of jail. Of course, Ambrose's mom forbids him to spend time with Cosmo, but Ambrose is pining for a father

Another Great ReadAnother typical Susin Nielson great read. Funny, flowing, and fanciful. I hope she never stops writing her truly awesome books.

The dynamic between the unlikely friendship between Cosmo and Ambrose is excellent and kept me going through most of the book but the portrayal of Ambrose supposedly being 13 is done terribly and is by far the worst and least realistic par of his charecter. Other than that it is a great book.

Meh. Based on the title alone, I should have loved this book. But I couldn't get past my profound dislike for Ambrose's mother and the vague but persistent sense that the author just couldn't pull off her attempts at creating an authentic voice for her adolescent boy character. For the most part, he was sweet and eccentric. But then she'd try to insert some pubescent male lewdness, and it just didn't work. I get that she was aiming for a realistic narrative, and since she was writing from the

Loved this book as something to just ease up during the holidays. All of us have lately been reading a lot of complex books and it was fun to just relax and let loose with this book. But still this book I felt was solid. Great plot line, simple characters and touching issues of independence, liberty, how protective your parents should be and other issues that almost every teenager is concerned about. If you want a simple book to relax and read, this is the book for you.