Susin Nielsen Fernlund Livres

Depuis la tragédie qui a anéanti sa famille, Pétula, seize ans, a développé de nombreuses phobies ; et prétend qu'une prudence et une hygiène extrêmes lui permettront de parer à la moindre Catastrophe. Mais est-ce bien réaliste ?... Au lycée, contrainte et forcée, elle fait partie d'un atelier d'art-thérapie. Les adolescents "à problèmes" qui y assistent se supportent tout juste : Jusqu'à ce que Jacob, "l'homme bionique", fasse son apparition. Appareillé depuis qu'il a perdu son avant-bras, le jeune homme, grand cinéphile, est aussi moqueur qu'attentif aux autres. A ses côtés, Pétula se sent enfin revivre. Mais il se pourrait qu'il cache lui aussi un secret trop lourd à porter...

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.” Sometimes Leonard gets lonely. So does Mariposa, who is new in town. Maybe they could keep each other company? “Hello,” says Leonard. “Hola,” says Mariposa. While the friends don’t share a language, they do share adventures. And together they find a place where all cats—and their humans—are welcome.

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 trivia. His favorite game show is Who What Where When; he even named his gerbil after the host. Felix's mom, Astrid, is loving but can't seem to hold on to a job. So when they get evicted from their latest shabby apartment, they have to move into a van. Astrid swears him to secrecy; he can't tell anyone about their living arrangement, not even Dylan and Winnie, his best friends at his new school. If he does, she warns him, he'll be taken away from her and put in foster care. As their circumstances go from bad to worse, Felix gets a chance to audition for a junior edition of Who What Where When, and he's determined to earn a spot on the show. Winning the cash prize could make everything okay again. But things don't turn out the way he expects. . . . Susin Nielsen deftly combines humor, heartbreak, and hope in this moving story about people who slip through the cracks in society, and about the power of friendship and community to make all the difference.

Wilbur has spent his teens being bullied and now he's sure he's nothing but a loser: his best friend is 85 years old, and his only talent is playing the triangle in the school band. Things start to look up when a mix-up with the French exchange programme results in Wilbur being assigned a girl to look after, an amazing, sophisticated, beautiful French girl called Charlie. Wilbur is sure he's in love, and his sometime friend Alex has a plan to give Wilbur the makeover that will get Charlie to love him back. But the course of true l'amour never did run smooth.

Thirteen-year-old wrestling fanatic Henry used to have a normal life. 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.

Having just moved into a family shelter with her mother, seven-year-old Lily is filled with anxiety when faced with a show-and-tell presentation at her new school, but her incredible imagination and creativity save the day.

Ambrose Bukowski is a twelve-year-old with a talent for mismatching his clothes, for saying the wrong thing at the worst possible time, and for words. In short, he’s a self-described nerd. Making friends is especially hard because he and his overprotective mother, Irene, have had to move so often. And when bullies at his latest school almost kill him by deliberately slipping a peanut into his sandwich to set off his allergy, it's his mother who has the extreme reaction. From now on, Ambrose has to be home-schooled. Then Ambrose strikes up an unlikely friendship with the landlord's son, Cosmo, an ex-con who's been in prison. They have nothing in common except for Scrabble. But a small deception grows out of control when Ambrose convinces a reluctant Cosmo to take him to a Scrabble club. Could this spell disaster for Ambrose?

Violet navigates the upheaval of her family's move from Vancouver to Los Angeles, grappling with her father's new life choices, including his marriage to a trophy wife, Jennica. As her younger sister struggles with emotional turmoil and their mother flits between relationships, Violet's anger manifests in unpredictable and often humorous ways. The story explores themes of family dynamics, resilience, and the challenges of adolescence amid significant changes.

Violet is not impressed with her TV director dad: he's decided to abandon his family in Vancouver to start over with a new younger wife in LA. She needs a new stepfather who is perfect, charming and will show Dad what he's missing: she needs George Clooney, Hollywood superstar.

Meet Stewart. Heâe(tm)s geeky, gifted and sees things a bit differently to most people. His mum has died and he misses her all the more now he and Dad have moved in with Ashley and her mum. Meet Ashley. Sheâe(tm)s popular, cool and sees things very differently to her new family. Her dad has come out and moved out âe" but not far enough. And now she has to live with a freakazoid step-brother. Stewart canâe(tm)t quite fit in at his new school, and Ashley canâe(tm)t quite get used to her totally awkward home, which is now filled with some rather questionable decor. And things are about to get a whole lot more mixed up when these two very different people attract the attention of school hunk Jared. . .