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(0)Eleanor H Porter
1) Pollyanna
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Portuguese
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Órfã de pai e mãe, Pollyanna, uma menina de 11 anos, é acolhida pela tia Polly, sua única parente viva. Rica, porém triste e rancorosa, a tia é desprovida de compreensão e afetividade, e recebe a menina em sua casa como um dever. Pollyanna, por sua vez, é uma menina encantadora, que a todos conquista com sua paixão pela vida e pelas pessoas, seu otimismo, sua alegria de viver. Um clássico da literatura infanto-juvenil escrito em 1912, e...
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English
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Just David is the story of David, an innocent and sweet little boy of 10 who is suddenly transplanted from a quiet, shut away world of music (he plays the violin) in the mountains with only his father for company, to the hustle and bustle of a normal small town. He is a boy filled with love of music and love of people. Yes, he has a good sweet heart and it comes through in this novel. Kind of like Pollyanna, it is a story of how he brings his own...
3) Just David
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English
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When a newly orphaned boy with a violin shows up in a small town, his unnique perspective transforms everyone.
When David comes on the scene, The Holly family, and much of the town, have done things for so long they don't even realize they are in a rut. David's innocence and naivete bring with it his own set of assumptions, opinions, and expectations. Because of the care his father had taken to keep him from the 'bad' – or painful – things in...
4) Mary Marie
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English
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Eleanor H. Porter's most famous literary creation is Pollyanna, but she isn't the only precocious young girl to spring from the author's pen. Mary Marie Anderson describes herself as "a cross-current and a contradiction", the offspring of incompatible parents who couldn't even agree about her name. When the two divorce when she is thirteen, Mary Marie is delighted since she's always liked being different. None of the other girls have two homes and...