The tamer of the snake. Balakina A.

“The Taming of the Snake” is a story about childhood, growing up and looking for herself with a bold girl with a difficult character during the last years of the USSR and in Yeltsin Russia. Adults do not like her sincerity in combination with stubbornness. And with peers, it is not easy to get along with this. But her courage, rich fantasy and sense of humor help to survive the quarantine in an infectious diseases hospital, and conflicts with teachers, and difficult periods in the life of the family, and the first love. Why do your peers love to be harmful and teasing, but it’s easy to find a common language with others? What is more important - to receive adult approval or keep a word given to a friend and remain yourself? Why are boys and girls brought up differently, and children are always forbidden to be angry? - The main character finds answers to these and other pressing questions. The book is relevant for children, adolescents and their parents!