The Bell for the Teacher, or A Forest of Hands

Get a reading list for extracurricular assignments—but can’t even get through the list itself? Just run away to an uninhabited island!

Need to earn money for a whole hippopotamus, and you’re just a regular third-grader? Nothing is impossible!

You’ve understood you’ve been in love with your classmate for a long time. But how do you tell her? Of course—give her a rat!

To come up with an idea for your YouTube channel—and end up with trouble on your head? That’s easy!

And also: uncover the secret of the ghost from the elevator, become a fortune-teller, but still get “two” for math and write an essay on the assigned topic with incredible consequences…

And these and other cool stories about schoolchildren were told by modern writers: Narine Abgaryan, Alexander Tsypkin, Vera Gamaюн, Anastasia Bezlyudnaya, Larisa Vaskan, Anna Zimova, Yulia Evgrafova, Oksana Ivanova, Igor Rodionov, Nikolai Shekotilov, Svetlana Shchelkunova, and Maria Yakunina.

Authors: Narine Abgaryan, Alexander Tsypkin, Yulia Evgrafova, Maria Yakunina, Oksana Ivanova, Anastasia Bezlyudnaya, Anna Zimova, Vera Gamaюн, Igor Rodionov, Larisa Vladimirovna Vaskan, Nikolai Shekotilov, Svetlana Shchelkunova