Tremendous Things

Wilbur has spent his teens being bullied and now he's sure he's nothing but a loser his best friend is 85 years old and his only talent is playing the triangle in the school band. Things start to look up when a mix-up with the French exchange programme results in Wilbur being assigned agirl to look after - an amazing sophisticatedbeautiful French girl called Charlie. Wilbur is sure he's in love and his sometime friend Alex has a plan to give Wilbur the makeover that will get Charlie to love him back. But the course of truel'amour never did run smooth . . . About the Author Susin Nielsen got her start writing for popular television seriesDegrassi Junior High. Since then she’s written for many Canadian TV shows and her young adult novels have received considerable critical acclaim.Word Nerd andMy 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 whileWe Are All Made of Molecules was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Susin lives in Vancouver with her family and two extremely destructive cats.