Heidi

Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather on a Swiss mountain. She likes the goats, the air, and Peter the goatherd. Later she is taken to a city house as a companion for Clara, who uses a wheelchair. Heidi grows homesick enough to become ill. The mountain is not magic, but it is the place she can breathe. Spyri’s book is a nineteenth-century children’s novel about health, friendship, and a child who should have been asked where she wanted to live.

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