Dear George Clooney

Please Marry My Mom

Susin Nielsen

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Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs from one loser to another, searching for love. As for Violet, she gets angry in ways that are by turns infuriating, shocking, and hilarious.

When her mother takes up with the unfortunately named Dudley Wiener, Violet and her friend Phoebe decide that they need to take control. If Violet's mom can't pick a decent man herself, they will help her snag George Clooney.

In Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom, Susin Nielsen has created a truly original protagonist in Violet and a brilliant new novel that will delight readers into rooting for her, even when she's at her worst.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY JUL 19, 2010

Nielsen (Word Nerd) has created a narrator as sassy and candid as this memorable novel's title. Smarting from her parents' divorce her director father left her mother to marry an actress Violet is fed up with all the "losers" her mother has since dated. When introduced to beau number 10, the pudgy and unfortunately named Dudley Wiener, the 12-year-old decides she "couldn't be a bystander any longer." She pens a letter to George Clooney (her mother, a stylist, once did his hair on a movie set), explaining that she's trying to find a suitable suitor for her parent ("I have a very good feeling about you"), adding that she and her younger sister, Rosie, would make "excellent stepchildren" with "none of the fuss and muss of babies." Nielsen skillfully balances her story's keen humor Violet's attempts to sabotage her mother's relationship with bighearted Dudley are hilarious with poignancy. Especially affecting are Violet's struggles to accept her father's new family and her devotion to both her mother and Rosie. A bonus: Clooney makes a cameo. Ages 11 14.

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