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1) Pollyanna
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870L
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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.
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"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,...
3) Just David
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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...
4) Mary Marie
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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...
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Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself. Numerous following sequels have been written by various authors. Pollyanna's crippling spinal injury has been cured, and she begins to teach a new town the "glad game". She makes many friends and two of her childhood friends, Jimmy and Jamie, court her. Jimmy is an energetic, healthy young architect and Jamie is a crippled literary genius.
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Publication Date
2008
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When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sour-tempered aunt after her father's death, things seem bad enough. But then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna's sunny nature and good humor prove to have an astonishing effect on all around her, and this wonderful tale of how cheerfulness can conquer adversity has remained one of the world's most popular children's books since its first publication in 1913.
9) Pollyanna
Publication Date
1960.
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Here you'll meet Pollyanna, the orphan who brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets. but her strict Aunt Polly is too concerned with appearances, propriety and local politics to appreciate her effervescent niece. It isn't until the town almost loses their "Glad Girl" that Aunt Polly realizes the power of love and lightheartedness.
