'Word Nerd' author Susin Nielsen @ Bialik

Secondary 1 Bialik students welcomed YA author and TV screenwriter (Degrassi Junior High) Susin Nielsen on September 15, 2011 for an an event which we shared with Sec.1 students from Hebrew Academy accompanied by HA librarian, Norma Newman.  Susin Nielsen is an award-winning author with Canadian Screenwriter and Gemini Awards to her credit, along with nominations for the prestitgious TD Canadian Children’s Book Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award and the Canadian Library Association’s YA Book Award, among others.  She is the author of numerous children’s and YA books, including ‘Word Nerd’ and ‘Dear George Cloony, Please Marry My Mom’(2010).  Susin spoke to our students about her career as an author using comical scenes from her life as a backdrop, and read to them from ‘Word Nerd’.  She also demonstrated the differences between writing for television and writing novels using student volunteers to act out a scene from one of her scripts.  Students were excited by Susin’s engaging presentation, and her books are flying off the Bialik Library shelves!   Watch Susin Nielsen reading from 'Word Nerd' to our students: