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Heidi is a children's book by Johanna Spyri. It has numerous sequels. Many movies of the book have been made, including an anime series （Japanese: アルプスの少女ハイジ）.
Heidi is orphaned, and is taken by her Aunt Dete to live with her grumpy hermit of a grandfather in the mountains. He refuses to send Heidi to school, so she spends her time in the pastures with a goat herder boy named Geissenpeter. However the bond of love that begins to grow between Heidi and her grandfather is disrupted when Aunt Dete arrives to take Heidi to live in Frankfurt. There she is to become the companion to a partially paralyzed girl named Klara.
As Heidi grows homesickness, the family doctor counsels that she be returned to the Alps, and thus she is sent back to live with her Grandfather. The next summer she is visited by Klara in a wheelchair, but in a fit of envy Geissenpeter pushes Klara down a slope. At the bottom Klara develops an overwhelming desire to see the flowers, and forces herself to walk.
Thus the beautiful Alps are held by the story to cleanse and heal the mind, body, and spirit.
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