The squire porridge. Krapivin V.

When they decided to arrange a tournament of archers in the Pioneer camp, one of the best shooters Volodya Novosyolov went into the squire unremarkable, quiet and timid porridge from the younger detachment. Well, should it be a squire! And then it turned out that the porridge is a real friend, and in real friendship, age does not matter. The story, written by Vladislav Krapivin in 1965, is now being read in one breath, because in it the author reliably and subtly reveals the world of the children's soul, talks about how a great and disinterested human feeling arises and arises - friendship.