The hero of Sergei Perelyaev’s stories is a teenager: amorous and enterprising, cheerful and trusting, witty and independent, from the very first lines he makes the reader fall in love with him and brings him to laughter, then to tears, to bright sadness and unbridled joy. Those who are not afraid to laugh until their stomachs hurt and be sad, remembering their first love, then laugh again and be sad again about the second love and the third, and so on, by the tenth grade about the tenth, will read this book with delight and gratitude. Parents will find their childhood in this book, and children will find theirs, and it will become easier for everyone in the family to understand each other, love and forgive all minor troubles, seeing behind them the desperate eccentricities that real life is full of.