Rex Zero, king of nothing - Wynne-Jones, Tim 1948- (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)
Sequel to: Rex Zero and the end of the world. – In 1962 Ottawa, eleven-year-old Rex Norton-Norton faces several confusing mysteries, including his father's troubling secrets from World War II, the problems of a beautiful but unhappy woman named Natasha, what to do about his mean and vindictive teacher, and whether or not he should even be concerned about these things.