"Paimenpoika alppimajalla" by Johanna Spyri is a children's novel published between 1880 and 1881. Five-year-old Heidi is sent to live with her reclusive grandfather in the Swiss Alps, where she befriends a young goatherd and his blind grandmother. Her idyllic mountain life is disrupted when she's taken to Frankfurt to companion a wealthy invalid girl named Klara. Homesick and confined by city life, Heidi must navigate two vastly different worlds while her newfound reading skills and cheerful spirit touch the lives of those around her. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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