Dad wanted to teach me French but then they decided I should finish music school first or my head might explode from all my studies.
Noted for its fresh and positive approach, extraordinary vitality, and fearless acceptance of life in its good and bad manifestations, this book shows young Russians' minds and souls.
I sang one really old song in English — we were learning it just then at music school.
The girl tells about her life in an orphanage, the dangerous pranks she and her friends play, the animosities they acquire and the connections that grow up among them.