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You know what they say: Two million Swedes can't be wrong. (Especially when you're talking about a country that's only got eight million people in the first place.)

That's the bestselling track record of the beloved Ned in his native land, and thankfully S�ren Olsson and Anders Jacobsson have seen fit to adapt and export the diary of this hilariously inventive sixth-grader to ... More

You know what they say: Two million Swedes can't be wrong. (Especially when you're talking about a country that's only got eight million people in the first place.)

That's the bestselling track record of the beloved Ned in his native land, and thankfully S�ren Olsson and Anders Jacobsson have seen fit to adapt and export the diary of this hilariously inventive sixth-grader to other shores. Ned Floyd--code name Treb Vladinsky, just in case anyone discovers his secret journal--is a perfectly normal 11-year-old. Which is to say that, more often than not, he's very funny. "Death to whoever peeks in this diary. May they burn in the fires of doom forever... or at least for a little while."

This very readable 133-page journey into the head of Ned details all the day-to-day vagaries of what can be an extremely weird age: Ned ingenuously records life-or-death concerns like bullies, cute girls (written about in red), cigarettes (code-named "socks," just in case), and hickeys ("You can order them from Irene in the seventh grade") alongside seemingly equally important topics, like the political struggles in the imaginary country of Hoppalochinia, frank assessments of everyone he comes across ("you know, one of those good-looking guys with moussed hair and linen pants"), and how best to brew a werewolf's potion (which includes, among other things, Coca-Cola, black pepper, mustard, and crushed ants, but which proved unsuccessful in field tests on a friend's little sister--"Not enough crushed ants in the potion, I guess"). (Ages 10 and older) --Paul Hughes

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