Lost Ones

Johan Rundberg is an award-winning author of children’s books who lives in Stockholm. He has written picture books, early readers, and middle grade. In 2021, he was awarded 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, the first book 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. Both The Night Raven and its sequel, The Queen of Thieves, were Junior Library Guild selections.Eva Apelqvist has been working as 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 Åstot, 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 one of the best young adult books of the year by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center. She is also a published children’s author in Sweden.

“This entry—like the previous installments—is exceptional: for its dry, witty humor and compelling plot; its characterizations, at once engaging and deeply respectful (Mika is indomitable: perceptive, adamant, compassionate, and vulnerable); and especially for the gravitas at the heart of its crime solving, an awareness of a deep inequity that resonates well beyond the stories’ historical and geographical setting. Swedish noir for the young.” —The Horn Book Magazine (starred review)“Robust prose paints vivid pictures, enhancing characterization, plot twists, and an action-packed finale…Exceptionally entertaining, always suspenseful, and eminently satisfying.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“The Boxcar Children meets James Bond, only it's set in 1880 Sweden. With richly developed characters that evoke strong emotions, ranging from compassion to fear and disgust, this ongoing series takes readers inside a 19th-century orphanage, and this third installment offers a magnificently crafted tale with a racing plot. —School Library Journal“A deftly crafted, original, and fun read from start to finish…Ably translated into English for an American readership by Eva Apelqvist, The Lost Ones is especially and unreservedly recommended…” —Midwest Book Review