The books of the Swedish writer Ulf Stark (winner of national and international literary awards - the August, German Children's and Astrid Lindgren) are known and loved in Russia and all over the world. In his books, everything is like in life: they grow up with the child, open to him the complex modern world of the blessed and the klutzes, eccentrics and bores... The heroine of Stark’s story “Weirds and Bores,” twelve-year-old Simone, has a very difficult time living among the “eccentrics and idiots who inhabit her.” house": with a mother who always forgets everything (including the birthday of her daughter and dog Kilroy when moving) and who has given up trying to "become normal" and her ridiculous husband. In addition, at the new school, Simone is mistaken for a boy because of her unusual name - and she is forced to do everything so as not to find herself in the awkward position of starting a “boy career”...