About the book: 1973 / Tales and stories about village children who help collective farmers and stud farm workers. The affairs of a large farm, the concerns of adults - all this becomes part of them life. Those who lived in the village forever remembered summer evenings, trips at night, incredible stories heard around the fire, the warm croup of a horse... And the guys from the story “The Last Circle” were incredibly lucky: they are riders, jockeys, they go to an equestrian school at the state farm hippodrome, they look after the horses and compete in horse races. Avera, the main character of the story “Three Harnessed Grasshoppers,” also lives at the stud farm. Here, in the open air of the meadow, near the Dnieper, ordinary and unusual events happen to Avera, because his childhood, with inventions and fairy tales, ends, and another time in his boy’s life begins. What is kindness and courage, honor and generosity - the guys in the book think about these questions.