About the book: 1966 / The girl Lyusya rides as a hare on a diesel locomotive to get medicine for her sick mother. However, everything goes somehow wrong. Does Lucy really need the drug? Is her mother really sick? And who is she, Lucy, is she who she claims to be? Alexei Leontiev’s adventure story “Triple Jump” was published in 1966 in the magazine “Around the World”, and in the same year it was published as a separate publication. Here is an early version of it, significantly different from the book edition. Illustrations by K. Edelstein.