
Biggest Fake in the Universe
Johan Rundberg(Author)
Amazon Crossing Kids (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-6625-3204-7 (ISBN)
Description
The bluff of a lifetime...
It started off innocently enough. Mo just wanted to catch a girl's eye. She was this super-talented and mysterious skater girl who looked like she had the universe all figured out. So Mo did what any self-respecting nerd would do: He put aside his chess pieces, his guinea pig, and his books on astronomy and transformed himself into a skater guy, in the hopes that she might notice him.
He never expected to catch the attention of his entire town, practically all of Sweden, and the internet. But that's exactly what happens when Mo-by a stroke of total luck-pulls off the skateboarding trick of a lifetime: He goes viral.
What's a guy to do when the whole universe is expecting him to be something he's not? Find out in this charming and hilarious story as Mo learns the meaning of being true to yourself...the hard way.
It started off innocently enough. Mo just wanted to catch a girl's eye. She was this super-talented and mysterious skater girl who looked like she had the universe all figured out. So Mo did what any self-respecting nerd would do: He put aside his chess pieces, his guinea pig, and his books on astronomy and transformed himself into a skater guy, in the hopes that she might notice him.
He never expected to catch the attention of his entire town, practically all of Sweden, and the internet. But that's exactly what happens when Mo-by a stroke of total luck-pulls off the skateboarding trick of a lifetime: He goes viral.
What's a guy to do when the whole universe is expecting him to be something he's not? Find out in this charming and hilarious story as Mo learns the meaning of being true to yourself...the hard way.
Reviews / Votes
"Delightfully told and sure to please." -Kirkus Reviews"A translated work told with frank humor in very short chapters...Rundberg's sporty rom-com should also resonate with fans of Dan Gutman, Kwame Alexander, and Mike Lupica." -Booklist
"A charming story of love and being true to yourself." -The Horn Book Magazine
"This is a story that accurately portrays the angst of growing up - understanding your strengths and weaknesses and figuring out how to be comfortable being who you are." -Midwest Book Review
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Fourth Grade to Seventh Grade, Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
206 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6625-3204-7 (9781662532047)
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Johan Rundberg is an award-winning author from Stockholm. He received Sweden's most prestigious literary prize, the August Prize, in the children's and YA category for Nattkorpen, the original edition of The Night Raven, book one in the Moonwind Mysteries series. The Night Raven was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year and was short-listed for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize. The Night Raven and its sequel, The Queen of Thieves, were Junior Library Guild selections. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the third book in the series, The Lost Ones, "exceptionally entertaining, always suspenseful, and eminently satisfying."
Eva Apelqvist has been a Swedish translator for more than twenty years. She grew up in Sweden and now lives in Minnesota. She recently translated the young adult novel Fire From the Sky, written by Moa Backe Astot, which was named a Printz Honor Book (only the second translated book to have received this honor), was short-listed for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize, and was named a best young adult book of the year by the Cooperative Children's Book Center. She is also a published children's author in Sweden.
Eva Apelqvist has been a Swedish translator for more than twenty years. She grew up in Sweden and now lives in Minnesota. She recently translated the young adult novel Fire From the Sky, written by Moa Backe Astot, which was named a Printz Honor Book (only the second translated book to have received this honor), was short-listed for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize, and was named a best young adult book of the year by the Cooperative Children's Book Center. She is also a published children's author in Sweden.