The Spooner

Yanis lives with the old man Fried on top of a mountain, away from civilization. The world is dangerous, and the Great Plague is cunning - that's what Fried tells 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 hut. The food runs out, and then Yanis has only one option: to pack the donkey, whistle for the dog Loku, and set off in search of Fried - facing danger.

The book "The Spooner" by Marjolein Hof - one of the most published and read contemporary children's writers in 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.