The Spooner

Yanis lives with the old man Fried on top of a mountain, away from civilization. The world is dangerous, and the Great Sickness is cunning - this is what Fried has been telling Yanis since childhood. The old man sometimes descends the mountain to trade the spoons that Yanis skillfully carves from wood for supplies. But one day Fried does not return to the cabin. The food runs out, and then Yanis has only one thing left to do: pack the donkey, whistle for the dog Loki, and set off in search of Fried - towards danger.

The book "The Spooner" by Marjolein Hof - one of the most published and read contemporary children's writers from the Netherlands - is written in the best traditions of classic adventure novels in the spirit of Astrid Lindgren, Tonke Dragt, and Thea Beckman.
For middle school age.