42 days

Sasha will have to spend all summer in the city: the family has no money to go to the sea. But there are troubles and more serious in his life. The surrounding world unexpectedly became hostile: the neighbors look askance and throw garbage under the door of the apartment, classmates are teased and called up, and even Valentina’s friend began to shun him ... Parents do not explain anything, but prepare for a hasty departure. The holidays begin for Sasha and his brother Jacob a month earlier, and the boys, along with their uncle, go to the castle full of secrets, where Nefertiti, Sherkhan and two Napoleons live. And in the attic, where it is strictly forbidden to rise, a mysterious stranger in an iron mask is hidden!
The action of the novel is strong Edgar in 1942 in occupied France. Sasha and his loved ones are in danger, which he does not even suspect for the time being for the time being. For forty-two summer days that will forever remain in his memory, the boy gains friends, becomes truly adults and takes responsibility for the fate of those whom he loves. And he understands: even a boarding house for insane can become a real island of sanity in the ocean of madness.
Silen Edgar (born in 1978) is the author of a dozen books for adults and children awarded many awards, including the Gulli (2014) and LesincorrupTibles TV channel (2015-2016) The historical story "42 days" is partly based on real events known to the author of family traditions. Her characters are close and understandable to the modern teenager, as if they were our contemporaries. "KOMAPAGID" opens the work of Silen Edgar to the Russian reader.
For secondary and senior school age