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My Messed-Up Life Susin Nielsen

My Messed-Up Life par Susin Nielsen

My Messed-Up Life Susin Nielsen


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Résumé

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.

My Messed-Up Life Résumé

My Messed-Up Life Susin Nielsen

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. To Violet, it's like he's traded his old life for a better one - complete with new and improved children. To make matters worse, her mom has taken up with a dorky new man called Dudley Wiener. Violet decides to take control. She needs a new stepfather who is perfect, charming and will show Dad what he's missing: she needs George Clooney, Hollywood superstar.

My Messed-Up Life Avis

"My Messed-Up Life is another funny, well-observed story from Susin Nielsen... it's a bouncy read with characters to whom readers will soon feel a strong attachment." * BookTrust *
"Sassy and candid... Especially affecting are Violet's struggles to accept her father's new family and her devotion to both her mother and Rosie. A bonus: Clooney makes a cameo" -- starred review * Publishers Weekly *
"Nielsen has created a story that is both funny and touching and well worth the read. Highly recommended" * CM Magazine *
"Laugh-out-loud humor deftly mixes with insight into a troubled girl's pain over her parents' divorce, keeping readers involved on every page ... This comic novel scores" * Kirkus *
"...warm, funny and highly engaging." * The School Librarian *
"This hilarious book is fast-paced and witty, but beneath the laughs, Violet is a pre-teen struggling with the complexities of her parent's relationships." * Inis Reading Guide *
"Violet is a complex, appealing character ... a very engaging read" * Booklist *
"A lot of cleverness and fun ... Some delectable secondary characters (and) a couple of lovely plot twists ... Buy it" * National Post *

À propos de Susin Nielsen

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 Book of the Year and many Young Readers' Choice Awards, while We Are All Made of Molecules was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Susin lives in Vancouver with her family and two extremely destructive cats.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR009470397
9781783445523
1783445521
My Messed-Up Life Susin Nielsen
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Andersen Press Ltd
2018-06-07
224
N/A
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