The book “Stories for Girls” includes two stories by children's writer L. A. Charskaya: “Princess Javakha” and “Notes of a College Girl.” Nina Dzhavakha and Luda Vlassovskaya are two heroines of these stories, each with their own difficult fate: Nina lost her mother early, and Luda lost her father. They had to leave their father's house and move to the cold walls of the institute in St. Petersburg. But wise fate brings these girls together in the same class and strong friendship brings them together, and the gloomy walls of the institute no longer seem so cold... For middle school age.