Thirteen-year-old Gregoire remembers well how his first teacher used to say about him: “He has a head like a sieve, golden hands and a big heart…” This is how he lives from day to day: he loves his grandfather, does crafts and hates the school where every student goes to school. morning parents drive.

Once, having learned that there is a lyceum in the world, where boys make something all the time, he, having closed himself in his room, writes a funny and touching letter asking him to allow him to study there , puts the drawings of his first invention - a banana peeling machine - into an envelope and ... waits excitedly. Maybe marks are really not the most important thing and it is much more important to know what you want from life?

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© 2002 Bayard Éditions Jeunesse

© Khotinskaya N., translation, 2007

© Anna "Lumbricus" Suchkova, illustrations, 2007

© ℗ AST Publishing House, Audiobook, 2021

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