''Družba Pere Kvržice'' ("Pero the Lump's gang") is a 1933

children's novel Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reade ...

written by

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

n children's novelist

Mato Lovrak Mato Lovrak (8 March 1899 - 14 March 1974) was a Croatian children's literature writer. Biography Mato Lovrak was born on 8 March 1899 in Veliki Grđevac. Lovrak finished teacher training college in Zagreb and served as teacher in Kutina, ...

. The plot concerns a group of children headed by Pero "Kvržica", who secretly decide to restore a disused village

mill Mill may refer to: Science and technology * Factory * Mill (grinding) * Milling (machining) * Millwork * Paper mill * Steel mill, a factory for the manufacture of steel * Sugarcane mill * Textile mill * List of types of mill * Mill, the arithmetic ...

. It remains Lovrak's second best known work, after his first novel, '' Vlak u snijegu''. In 1970 the novel was made into a theatrical film of the same title, directed by

Vladimir Tadej Vladimir Tadej (9 May 1925 – 1 March 2017) was a Croatian production designer, screenwriter and film director. He contributed to more than forty films from 1949 to 1998. Biography Tadej was born in Novska in 1925. In 1945 he enrolled into arc ...

. In 2011, it was adapted for theatre. It is required reading in the 4th grade in all Croatian primary schools.

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