Susin Nielsen-Fernlund

Thirteen-year-old brilliant but socially-challenged Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must find common ground when, two years after Stewart's mother died, his father moves in with his new girlfriend--Ashley's mother, whose gay ex-husband lives in their guest house.

Toronto. Ninth-grader Wilbur Nuez-Knopf can't live down a deeply humiliating moment from two years ago that's followed him to high school. His good friend Alex has stuck by him, but Alex has started dating Fabrizio and doesn't have much time to hang out. Luckily, Wil can still confide in his elderly neighbor, Sal, but he longs to have a special someone of his own. When the school band does an exchange with students from Paris, a girl named Charlie...