TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nielsen,Susin
TI  - Word Nerd
SN  - 9780887769900
U1  - F NIE 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Tundra Books, 
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Conformity
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Single-parent families
KW  - Scrabble (Game)
KW  - Allergy
KW  - Authors, Canadian
KW  - Canadian fiction
KW  - FICTION / General
N1  - Grade level: 4.8; Lexile: 800L; Guided reading: Q; "For ages 9 and above."; t.p. verso
N2  - Twelve-year-old Ambrose Bukowski and his widowed, overprotective mother move frequently. When he almost dies after he bites into a peanut that bullies put in his sandwich, just to see if he is really allergic, Irene has had enough, and she decides to homeschool him. 

While she teaches at night, Ambrose discovers that he and his neighbor both love Scrabble, so, without his mother's knowledge, he talks Cosmo into taking him to a Scrabble Club.  Will they move again when Ambrose's mother finds out?

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