About the book: 1974 / The story "Short Winter Vacation" (Voronezh, 1974) examines the relationships between children in a team, talks about friendship and camaraderie, and the organization of interesting leisure time for schoolchildren. The winter holidays are short, but there is so much you can do during this time: build a snowman, fill a skating rink, build an ice slide in the yard, create a hockey team... Or you can spend the holidays in another way: ruin the newly painted desks at school, install gas for the residents attack, sprinkle ash on the skating rink... The story compares the positive and negative lifestyles of teenagers and gives a convincing example that honest, kind, attentive people live a more interesting and fun life.