Word Nerd

Word Nerd is an entertaining novel by Susin Nielsen consisting of a twelve-year-old boy that is deathly allergic to peanuts and amazing at Scrabble, ab ex-convict that shares his love for Scrabble, an overprotective mother, and an absolutely hilarious plot. Susin Nielsen is an amazing writer and she wrote the novel : 'Dear George Clooney Please Marry my Mom'. It was (yet again) an astounding novel that had you submerged as soon as you began reading, quite similar to Word Nerd.

Word Nerd is about a twelve year old boy by the name of Ambrose. Now, Ambrose has a problem. He's deathly allergic to peanuts, and the fact that he is a nerd, he has around zero friends, and an overprotective mother doesn't help his situation very much. But when Ambrose meets Cosmo, an ex-convict that learned to play Scrabble in prison, and goes to a Scrabble club, his life changes drastically, and Scrabble turns into something that he does whenever he gets the chance. Ambrose is downright amazing with Scrabble, but there are others that are even better. And losing only leaves him in a foul mood. Yet when he realizes that he gets better and better with every play, and he starts to look at the board a little differently, he notices that Scrabble is really, really, really, fun, and starts to make friends with the people around him. But when the cops get involved and his mother finds out everything that he has hidden, his comfortable world of Scrabble comes crashing into the ground.

Ambrose meets a lot of people, get mixed up in a lot, runs away, and gets into big trouble with his mother. But his mother has to learn that she can only baby him for so long, and she doesn't seem to wish to let go. And every other time, something happens, and they move. Again, and again. And this time, things change to make the situation different. Ambrose finds somethings that he never has had before. The feeling of belonging. And that feeling makes him not wish to move anymore. Will he be able to show his mother his side of everything?

Susin Nielsen is amazing at writing, and I even got to get her signature on each of the two books that I got. Word Nerd makes me laugh so much every time that I read it- it really is delightfully hilarious!

**** I give this book a 9.5 out of 10!!!!!!!!****