No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen

No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen

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.

Susin Nielsen, a Gemini Award winner, got her start on the popular television series Degrassi Junior High, feeding cast and crew muffins and bologna sandwiches. They despised her cooking (a fact immortalized in a poem written by the cast: An tribute to Susin, the Bran Muffin Queen, we eat them, die, and turn green). Fortunately for Susin, they recognized a potential in a spec script she had written. Nielsen went on to write sixteen episodes of the hit TV show as well as four books in the Degrassi franchise. Since then, Nielsen has written and story-edited a number of TV shows, including Ready or Not, Madison, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, Edgemont, and two animated series, What About Mimi and Braceface, for which he has won two Canadian Screenwriter Awards.

She is the co-creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed series Robson Arms, as well as co-creator and showrunner of the pre-school series Franny's Feet. She also made a TV series out on author Susan Juby's book, Alice, I Believe. Hank and Fergus, which won the Christie's Silver Medal Award, Mormor Moves In, and The Magic Beads are three of Nielsen's children's books. She and her husband, Goran, live in Vancouver with their son, Oskar, and cat, Sam.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781524768379
ISBN 10	1524768375
Title	No Fixed Address
Author	Susin Nielsen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2020-04-07
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Nominated for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2019, Nominated for Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award 2021
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.