Johanna Spyri
1) Heidi
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English
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Kid Lit Classics (WPL-Youth)
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
OBD Grandparent's Day (September) - YOUTH
Description
At the age of five, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi is fascinated by his long beard and bushy gray eyebrows. She loves her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up among the goats and birds. But one terrible day, Heidi is collected by her aunt and is made to live with a new family in town. Heidi can't bear to be away from her grandfather;...
2) Heidi
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Español
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Heidi es una niña huérfana que es enviada a vivir con su abuelo, un hombre solitario que habita en los Alpes suizos. Entre montañas, prados y animales, Heidi descubre la alegría de la vida sencilla y la fuerza de la naturaleza, mientras logra ablandar el corazón de su hosco abuelo. Sin embargo, su felicidad se ve interrumpida cuando es llevada a la ciudad de Fráncfort para acompañar a Clara, una niña enferma. Lejos de las montañas, Heidi...
3) Heidi
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Tantor Media presents Johanna Spyri's 1880 classic novel Heidi; a tale of a young girl who moves to the Swiss Alps to live with her grandfather where she befriends both the children and the animals.
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Español
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Heidi es una niña huérfana que ahora tiene que vivir con su abuelo en una remota cabaña de los Alpes. Lejos de aburrirse, la pequeña descubre los secretos que las montañas y la naturaleza le ofrecen. Las aventuras de uno de los personajes más populares de la literatura infantil, en una cuidada edición actualizada e ilustrada.
Heidi teaches a magnificent lesson of self-love, perseverance, generosity, faith in the future, of love for others...
10) Heidi
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English
Description
When orphaned Heidi is sent away to the mountains to live with her grumpy grandfather, she gets a frosty welcome. Soon, with the help of her animal friends, the two grow to love each other.
11) Heidi
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English
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After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair, and must make a difficult decision.
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When young Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in a small shepherd's hut in the Swiss Alps, everyone expects him to turn her away. He has a bad reputation: mean, growly, and harsh as the cold mountain winds. But Heidi is quick to take on any challenge, whether it's keeping an eye on the rebellious goats, learning to read, or melting Grandfather's icy heart. Heidi's adventures take her up and down her beloved mountain, from picnics in the high...
13) Heidi
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An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
14) Heidi
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English
Description
Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
16) Heidi
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English
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Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
17) Heidi
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An abbreviated version of the tale of the Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
18) Heidi
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"When Heidi is sent to live in the Swiss Alps with her grumpy grandpa, the village takes pity on her. But Heidi's sweet and inquisitive nature quickly softens Grandpa's scowl and his heart. Heidi loves her new life in the mountains shepherding goats, gathering flowers, and playing with her best friend, Peter . . . until she is forced to move away to the soot and smoke of Frankfurt to be the companion of a young girl. Will Heidi ever return to Grandpa...
19) Heidi
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English
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Orphan Girl Heidi spends the happiest days of her childhood together with her eccentric grandfather, cut off from the outside world in a simple cabin in the Swiss mountains. But these carefree times come to an abrupt end when Heidi is taken to Frankfurt by her Aunt Dete to stay with the family of the wealthy Mr. Sesemann and be a playmate for his wheelchair-bound daughter Klara.
20) Heidi
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English
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The classic story of a young poor orphan girl abandoned by her aunt and banished to live with her isolated old grandfather high in the Swiss Alps.