Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
3) Pollyanna
Author
Series
Publication Date
1913
Lexile Measure
480L
Summary
Unwanted and unloved, Pollyanna Whittier comes to her aunt's home without a warm welcome. Pollyanna's irrepressible spirits make punishments seem like treats and her cheerfulness brings happiness to her aunt and other members of the community.
4) Mary Marie
Author
Publication Date
2024
Summary
Eleanor H. Porter's most famous literary creation is Pollyanna, but she isn't the only precocious young girl to spring from the author's pen. Mary Marie Anderson describes herself as "a cross-current and a contradiction", the offspring of incompatible parents who couldn't even agree about her name. When the two divorce when she is thirteen, Mary Marie is delighted since she's always liked being different. None of the other girls have two homes and...
5) Just David
Author
Publication Date
2024
Summary
When a newly orphaned boy with a violin shows up in a small town, his unnique perspective transforms everyone.
When David comes on the scene, The Holly family, and much of the town, have done things for so long they don't even realize they are in a rut. David's innocence and naivete bring with it his own set of assumptions, opinions, and expectations. Because of the care his father had taken to keep him from the 'bad' – or painful – things in...
Author
Series
Publication Date
1915
Summary
"Pollyanna, now healed from her debilitating spinal injury, spends much of her time teaching the "glad game" to a new town, as well as a very cynical woman, Mrs. Carew. Along the way she makes new friends, including Sadie and Jamie: Jamie is a fragile literary prodigy whose weakened legs compel him to depend on a wheelchair and crutches. Nine years later, twenty-year-old Pollyanna and her aunt encounter hard times. After the death of Dr. Chilton,...
