Heidi                                                               Puffin Books, 1880, 295 pages, $5.99

Johanna Spyri                                                            ISBN number: 0-8085-2708-8          

Heidi is a 5-year-old girl, sent by her aunt to the Alps to live with her grandfather. She spends three wonderful years with her grandfather and grows healthy and robust from the mountain air. One day, her aunt comes back to take Heidi to a school in Germany to study with a disabled girl named Clara. Heidi is sad to leave her grandfather and her home on the mountains. Once in Germany, she is forced to adapt. She must act like a “young lady” and must start behaving properly. Heidi makes these changes, but she desperately misses her home and her grandfather. Her homesickness starts to overtake her. Heidi’s appetite is lost, and her face is filled with pallor. Will Heidi ever be able to go back to her one true home in the Alps?

Johanna Spyri has written a wonderful tale about a young girl who has to go through so much to find her real home with her grandfather on the top of the mountains. This classic tale carries an important message, which is an inspiration to anyone who reads this novel. We should all follow our dream, no matter how much we have to go through.

Filled with adventure and inspiration, Heidi is a wonderful novel that all readers will love, guaranteed.

                                                -Maggie ‘07