Van de Ruit, John

Spud, a scholarship student at an elite boys' boarding school in South Africa, returns for a second year in 1991 to find things even more chaotic, with new students, a house cat, girl troubles, and a questionable part in the school play.

Fifteen-year-old Spud's 1991 diary reflects ongoing concerns about his manhood and his weird family, boarding school adventures of the Crazy Eight, a disastrous theater performance, and the joys and perils of having two beautiful women in his life.

In 1990, thirteen-year-old John "Spud" Milton, a prepubescent choirboy, keeps a diary of his first year at an elite, boys-only boarding school in South Africa, as he deals with bizarre housemates, wild crushes, embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, and much more.