About the book: 1975 / Gennady Gennadievich, a former actor, comes to the steppe village of Vasilki to manage the club. Soon Gen-Genych and the village boys were connected by the threads of strong camaraderie. Together they are participating in the preparation of a festive concert for state farm workers, and they dream of creating a monument to the partisans - the heroes of the civil war - in the quarry. You will read about all this, and about other adventures of Gray, Petya Yakushev, and Gavrilka the Shepherd in the story “Boys from Cornflowers.” In the story “Old Heron Island,” three eighth-graders find themselves on a protected island located in a small bay of the Black Sea. In a short time, Alyosha, Lena and Styopa learned a lot of interesting things about this island, about its countless winged inhabitants. The guys made friends with the old heron Kocherga, who was accidentally wounded by the mischievous Alyoshka with an arrow from a crossbow, and they themselves became inseparable friends.