Glass frogs: three stories about choosing. Boteva M., Vishnyakova N., Sergeeva T.

“Somewhere in South America there are glass frogs. You look at such a thing - and you see everything that is inside her. People are glass frogs. They are stuffed with thoughts, intentions, reasons, all the time they want something and represent themselves as someone, often far from the real one. ” So the heroine of the story of Natalia Vishnyakova characterizes others. The actors of all three stories in this collection, we seem to see through and through. It does not yet turn out that everything is not so simple.

a person is especially revealed in situations of a difficult choice. In the world of sports, such a choice arises, perhaps, more often than in everyday life. But these are not at all about points, glasses or speed. They are about human relations, about what a person considers the most important. Heroes from 11 to 15 years old. Football, figure skating or sports gymnastics is only a background that is better to see who is worth what.

There are three novels in the collection. One of them - Tatyana Sergeeva’s “free exercises” - was already published in Komapasgid. The novels of Maria Botheva “Football Coach Chistyakov” (Long List List Prize “Booker 2022”) and Natalia Vishnyakova “Start invited” (Named after V. Krapivin “Choice of a professional jury”)-new items. However, these authors are also well known to readers.