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Violence
None
No violence; a mild accident is part of the plot
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
None
No distressing content; the novel's emotional register is warmly optimistic throughout
What this book is about
When orphaned Pollyanna Whittier comes to live with her strict, wealthy Aunt Polly in a small Vermont town, she brings with her the 'glad game' her father taught her: finding something to be glad about in any circumstance. Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 classic follows Pollyanna as her irrepressible, genuinely felt optimism — never saccharine, always earned — slowly transforms the hearts of an entire community. One of children's literature's most enduring and most often misunderstood novels.
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