The Girl and the Glider

Olya Alekseeva is 13. Someone might say—she’s still a child! But can children really have real problems? In this half-child, half-adult life, there is already room for a big, clean dream; for first love; and for collisions with difficulties and troubles. Family, school, friends, a passion for chemistry, a shared cause with classmates, writing poems, thinking about the future… How hard it is to understand who you really are! And how hard—sometimes even painfully hard—to understand adults and the many contradictions they so readily let into their world.

Vladimir Kiselev’s work is a sincere and honest story about how complicated life truly is. Illustrations by Viktor Kupriyanov make the book close and understandable for teenagers, vividly revealing the characters and the mood of the novel.