Journal d'un dégonflé #8

The French edition of Jeff Kinney's beloved series returns with Pas de bol ! — and the cover says it all: Greg Heffley's stick-figure stand-in is frantically dodging a downpour of magic 8-balls, arms raised and face twisted in exasperated panic. It's a perfectly chaotic snapshot of the kind of spectacularly bad luck that has made this "ado ordinaire le plus célèbre de la planète" ("most famous ordinary teen on the planet") so endearing to readers everywhere. Published by Seuil in 2015, this eighth volume in the Journal d'un dégonflé series is a bright green slice of middle-school misery that fans of the series won't want to miss.