Shishkin's Root

Fleeing from hooligans, running into an old woman, losing consciousness, and finding yourself in Nizhny Novgorod in 1896... Nothing terrible! If you have collected material for a local history project and studied the history of all the central streets of the city in detail, then you surely know what building awaits around the corner and where the first electric tram in Russia is heading. Or do you not? When the initial excitement wears off, the main character, eighth-grader Seryozha Shishkin, gradually realizes that traveling to the past is not an entertaining stroll. How to earn money for food and where to live? What to do if you learn about a planned robbery? And whom can you actually trust? And most importantly: how to get back home, where your mother and little sister are waiting for you?