The name Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya became a symbol of heroism during the Great Patriotic War. Her younger brother Shura, who, following the example of his sister, volunteered for the front, died heroically less than a month before the Victory. This story is about their short life (brother and sister died barely reaching adulthood). It is mainly about family, about childhood and growing up: about how little responsible Zoya took care of Shura, how she studied at school, how early she grew up after the death of her father, what books she read, what she wrote down in her notebook-diary, what she argued about with friends ... The image of Shura is very charming, mischievous, talented, not always predictable. On the pages of the story there appears the image of Lyubov Timofeevna herself - a mother who lost both children, in whose soul the pain of loss and pride in their feat were tragically intertwined. The story of L. T. Kosmodemyanskaya is literary processed writer, journalist and teacher Frida Vigdorova, who put her talent and her understanding of the child and teenage soul into this book. For middle and high school age.