As we had this very long thread:
4 Ways High School Makes You Hate Reading (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...php?t=192666):
This was one of the books we had to read in school (in East Germany) when I was a kid. When I remember right we've been around 11/12 years old. But it was a shorter (and of course translated) version. Last year I read the longer book.