Set in Vancouver, the homeless capital of Canada due to it's temperate weather, No Fixed Address is a moving and tear jerking story. Susin Nielsen has brought a hard topic, children who are homeless, to the forefront. There are difficult topics and there are ones where socially we like to pretend they don't exist.

She is delighted to have finally figure out how to 'claim' her author profile on Goodreads! She lives in Vancouver with her family and two naughty cats. Susin’s new novel, We Are All Made of Molecules, will be published in Canada, the US and the UK in Spring of 2015. Her books have been translated into multiple languages.

Author Wally Lamb named it his top YA pick for 2012 in his “First Annual Wally Awards,” and recently Rolling Stone magazine put it at #27 in their list of “Top 40 Best YA Novels.”

It went on to win the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, the Canadian Library Association’s Children’s Book of the Year Award, and a number of Young Readers’ Choice Awards. Her third novel, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. It won multiple Young Readers’ Choice Awards, as did her second novel, Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom. Her first young adult novel, Word Nerd, was published in 2008 to critical acclaim. Since then, Nielsen has written for over 20 Canadian TV series. Nielsen went on to pen sixteen episodes of the hit TV show. They hated her food, but they saw a spark in her writing. Susin got her start feeding cast and crew on the popular television series, Degrassi Junior High. Susin Nielsen deftly combines humour, 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. All he needs is a little luck and a lot of brain power. When his friends Dylan and Winnie ask to visit, Felix always has an excuse.īut Felix has a plan to turn his and Astrid’s lives around: he’s going to go on his favourite game show Who, What, Where, When and win the cash prize. So when Felix starts at a new school, he does his very best to hide the fact that most of his clothes are in storage, he only showers weekly at the community centre, and that he doesn’t have enough to eat. Astrid promises it’s only for a while until she finds a new job, and begs Felix not to breathe a word about it. But Felix and his mom Astrid have a secret: they are living in a van. Felix Knutsson is nearly thirteen, lives with his mother and pet gerbil Horatio, and is brilliant at memorising facts and trivia.

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