Heidi

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Summary: Shaena at Richview Middle School
Review: At the begining of this book Heidi is taken up the moutain to her grandfather's house by her cousin Detie. The first few days that she's there she meets Peter.Peter is always talking about his grannieso finally
Heidi goes to meet her. A little ways through this book Heidi's cousin Detie comes and takes her away to live with Clara,a young pralysed girl in the city. heidi becomes very sick while she's here and and starts to sleep walk. Clara decides that Heidi should go home. Well, while Heidi
was at Clara's they grew to have a strong frienship. Clara comes to visit Heidi in the mountains. While Clara is there Heidi teaches Clara how to walk. Clara sees how happy Heidi is in the mountains and lets her stay.Clara goes back home and Heidi gets to stay in the mountains with Grandfather,Peter,Grannie,etc.. i liked this book because as I thought
before I read it, it reminded me of my life. If my friends were to ask about this book I would tell them that it's a great selectionif they like life journey. My friends probably wouldn't like this book because they like horror stories. This book makes you hungry to live in the mountains.

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Summary: This book makes you Hungry to live in the Mountians!
Review: Heidi is about a young girl that has lived with her Aunt Dete all of her life. Her Aunt has had enough of her so she sends her up a mountain to her Grandfather. The People of the town are very surprised at what Heidi's Aunt is about to do. They try to warn her but she won't listen. When Heidi and her Aunt get up the Alm, they find that the "Alm Uncle" is not very happy with their arrival. The Aunt doesn't care, she tells the Grandfather that she has taken care of the child long enough. She leaves and never comes back. After years of staying with her Granfather, Heidi learns how to live freely and finds new friends in high places. She learns about the mountains and the cold winters up on the Alm. As Heidi gets older her Aunt Dete comes up again and tells the Grandfather that Heidi needs to go to school. The Grandfather refuses, but eventually gives in. Dete takes Heidi to the city where she finds a new friend, Clara. Clara has to sit in a wheel chair. If you want to know why, read the book! Heidi gets into all kinds of mischieve there, she misses the mountains and can't understand why there aren't any trees. Heidi gets so homesick they have to send her back to the Alm. Clara and the other residents promise to visit her sometime in the summer. The book ends up that Clara and her Grandmother go and visit Heidi and they have the most wonderful time that they never wanted to leave. As there stay at the Alm goes on, the mountain air and hearty food strengthen Clara to where she can walk. Clara and her Grandmother leave with the promise of coming back again.

I really liked this book. It was very real, in a sense that brought you into the actual story. When I read the book, I almost wished I was there in the book listening to their conversations, or eating at their little dinner table. Whenever the book got to eating the meals, it was so real that I got hungry! I would definitely recommend this book to any age group. The author really describes the scenery to where you can picture it in your mind. I loved the book, and I am going to read again.

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Summary: A Book that Endures Forever
Review: Heidi is one of the first books I read as a youngster. I can still recall the wonderful description of life in the mountainous Alps with her beloved grandfather. Then to be taken to a less happy home, away from the mountains, and to share in Heidi's daily-life experiences and page-turning adventures holds attention to the very end of the book, which ends happily, much to the reader's relief. Heidi is a character all young girls should get to know...

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Summary: Shaena at Richview Middle School
Review: I encountered Heidi through TV animation series "Heidi__the Girl In The Alps" with Hayao Miyasaki involved. So reading this story makes me flash back the scenes of the TV series vividly. It is truly heartwarming and is based on real-life situation during late 19th century. While the Sound of Music is another excellent story on Austrian side of the Alps this is unrivalled Swiss side Alps story.

Heidi is really a nice pure girl softening the mind of the Aunt Alps who is known as reserved person and eventually heals the Clara who has been confined to the wheelchair. The well-known Ghost story is truly showing well how seriously Heidi has suffered from homesickness and how strong the pull of the Alps life had been to Heidi. While during 19th century abuse of the children was the concern of the society. This surely was a source of hope for deprived children just like Heidi. Such dynamic reversal of the situation is what this story makes great not just for children but for adults as well.

Major complaints for Children's classic are
1.Description of Alps life. Maybe Miyasaki's research has been far better than the writer so TV animation series is more exact I think. Spyri's description lack the fierceness of the nature to take some balance.
2. Peter's jealously is weak as a plot and last part's asking for repentence is a bit of dull. But even with that this is a wonderful original story for Heidi the TV series that has been rerun in Europe.

Heidi's constant anxiety whether Peter's Gramma is still alive is the part I like most. Readers should share Heidi's anxiety I am sure.

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Summary: A Very Special Book
Review: This was my mother's favorite book. She was often not well and was a voracious reader. As an only child, I, too devoured books as fast as I could find them. My house then, as now, is a tribute to the written word. I was named after the book, so naturally I read it numerous times, dreaming that I was the heidi in the book, running through the alpine meadows...basking in the grouchy love of my gradfather..being one with the surroundings. It's such a sweet book..a book of love and hope and overcoming all odds for the ones you love. How can you not love it! I always fantasized about finding my own Peter to live happily ever after with...running through fields, well, you get the idea.... Alas, the only Peter I ever found was a long-haul trucker with deprived teeth, seven piercings (two in places I cannot attest to) and tattoos from head to toe who played Aerosmith and Waylon Jennings as loud as he could. My God! My price has come!. Well, NOT!. Ah well. The search continues! By all means read the book to your children..or to yourself. It's worth the effort. It's nice to read books that leave you with a smile on your face.