Heidi

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BE CLASSIC with Heidi introduced by bestselling author Veera Hiranandani. BE CLASSIC withHeidiintroduced by bestselling author Veera Hiranandani. At the age of five, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi is fascinated by his long beard and bushy gray eyebrows. She loves her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up amongst the goats and birds. But one terrible day, Heidi is collected by her aunt and made to live with a new family in the city. Heidi can't bear to be away from her grandfather. Can she find a way back up the mountain, where she belongs

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Johanna Louise Spyri (1827-1901) was a Swiss-born author of novels, notably children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as a child spent several summers near Chur in Graub nden, the setting she later would use in her novels.