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New Swedish Books 18 Come on, Jonny! The jury: Hu
morous embarrassments mixed with the magic of first love. “If your name is Jonny Jonsson-Johnson you can be certain of two things. One is that your parents are so useless at agreeing on things that they couldn’t even agree on one surname. The other is that you are destined to fail. Everyone with a name like Jonny will end up in prison eventually. At least according to Nicolai, the biggest moron in our class.” A lot has happened since we were first introduced to Jonny in Den där Jonny JonssonJohnson (That Jonny Jonsson-Johnson). Krister Petterson - who is not a crazy prime minister killer, but a normal nice person who works in a warehouse – has moved in with Jonny and his mum. Elias and Melissa are more in love than ever. Elias is so much in love that he tries to persuade Jonny the only sensible thing to do is to get together with Melissa’s best friend Naima. And maybe he should just do what Elias says? Ask her out. Get it over and done with. What’s the worst thing that could happen? Elin Lindell Children’s fiction, 9–12 years, 192 p. Elin Lindell Publisher Alfabeta Rights Alfabeta AnnaKaisa Danielsson annakaisa@alfabeta.se Photo: Lars-Erik Kohrs