About the book: 2022 / They say that the level of development of society is determined by the attitude towards children, the elderly and animals. This is exactly what the warm and hooligan story “The Road to Tortuga” is about. It contains a boy who is not needed by his parents, an old man who is not needed by his daughter, and a dog who was brought into the forest to die. But they all need each other. Tishka is nine years old, and his Dad likes to repeat that children are the nails in the coffin. That's why the boy was given the nickname Carnation. One day he meets an eccentric one-eyed old man, whom everyone calls Grandfather the Goat. But in reality he turns out to be a cheerful and kind Skipper. The old man lives in a private house, slated for demolition, on the edge of a brand new microdistrict. And he calls his overgrown area nothing less than Tortuga - the island of pirates. Gvozdyk and Skipper become friends. However, their cheerful life is in danger from the old man's daughter Lara, who wants to send her father to a nursing home and sell Tortuga. She almost succeeds, but her friends run away. They embark on a dangerous journey along the river on a homemade raft in search of the real Tortuga, the one in the Caribbean. Adventures await them, a shipwreck, a night forest, a talent competition, illness and a test. And all in order to become a real family and find your own personal island of freedom.