Twelve-year-old Ambrose is a glass-half-full kind of guy. A
self-described "friendless nerd," he moves from place to place
every couple of years with his overprotective mother, Irene. When
some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut
into his sandwich -- even though they know he has a deathly allergy
-- Ambrose is philosophical. Irene, however, is not and decides
that Ambrose will be home-schooled.
Alone in the evenings when Irene goes to work, Ambrose pesters
Cosmo, the twenty-five-year-old son of the Greek landlords who live
upstairs. Cosmo has just been released from jail for breaking and
entering to support a drug habit. Quite by accident, Ambrose
discovers that they share a love of Scrabble and coerces Cosmo into
taking him to the West Side Scrabble Club, where Cosmo falls for
Amanda, the club director. Posing as Ambrose's Big Brother to
impress her, Cosmo is motivated to take Ambrose to the weekly
meetings and to give him lessons in self-defense. Cosmo, Amanda,
and Ambrose soon form an unlikely alliance and, for the first time
in his life, Ambrose blossoms. The characters at the Scrabble Club
come to embrace Ambrose for who he is and for their shared love of
words. There's only one problem: Irene has no idea what Ambrose is
up to.
In this brilliantly observed novel, author Susin Nielsen transports
the reader to the world of competitive Scrabble as seen from the
honest yet funny viewpoint of a boy who's searching for acceptance
and for a place to call home.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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