Shoujo Pollyanna - Recommendations

• Vol: 3
• 1986

When cheerful orphan Pollyanna comes to live with her strict Aunt Polly, Pollyanna's unyielding optimism lifts the hearts of everyone around her.

• Vol: 1
• 1990

Orphan Mary Lennox moves from India to the English moorlands to live with a wealthy uncle she's never met. The young girl wanders the grounds of her new home and discovers an abandoned garden that's been locked away for a decade. With the help of a nature-loving local boy, Mary works to bring it back to life. As the seeds begin to open up, so do the hearts of those who come to look upon the mysterious Secret Garden.

• Vol: 1
• 2015

Mountain girl Heidi's heart belongs to the Alm, where she lives with her grandfather and spends her days with goatherd Peter and his flock of goats. When her relative Dete takes her away and places her in a wealthy household to be a companion to a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, Heidi is constantly criticised by the head housekeeper for her unrefined ways. For the sake of her new friend she tries to hold in her overwhelming homesickness, but all Heidi wants is to return to her grandfather where she belongs.

• Vol: 1
• 1990

When Heidi is left in the care of her grandfather, a mountain hermit with a bad reputation, the child falls in love with her new rural home and adores her gruff but good-hearted grandparent. For Heidi no place will ever be home but her dear mountains the Alps.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 18
• 1997

Miss Marilla Cuthbert and Mr. Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt an orphan boy from the asylum as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, what ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please but dissatisfied with her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her long braids of red hair. Being a child of imagination, however, Anne takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island.

• Vol: 1
• 1977

Anne, an imaginative young red-haired girl, is accidentally adopted from an orphanage by a pair of aging siblings who originally wanted a boy to help them work their farm. The happy accident changes everyone's lives for the better.

• Vol: 1
• 1966

The events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. Based on the famous children's book chronicling the adventures of the carefree girl Heidi in the Swiss Alps and her friendship with a sickly city girl.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 55
• 2008 - 2017

Chihiro Komiya is an energetic elementary school student who was living with his mom. Chihiro is very good at doing housework and chores, and his mother's motto is "No work, no food." After his mother suddenly dies, a man named Madoka Taketori who claims to be his uncle shows up, and asks Chihiro to come live with him. Chihiro initially refuses, but when seeing the horribly dirty state of Madoka's rich home, he decides to start cleaning it. Then Madoka makes another offer to Chihiro: that he comes to live with him, but in exchange Chihiro will do the housework. Chihiro accepts this deal, but suddenly finds himself in a maid uniform.

• Vol: 1
• 2011

A 19th century tale of four very different sisters, each harboring her own hopes and ambitions for the future as their family collectively struggles to carry on in spite of their hardships.

• Vol: 20
• 2003 - 2013

After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko goes to live in the countryside with her grandmother, who runs a traditional Japanese inn built on top of an ancient spring said to have healing waters. While she goes about her chores and prepares to become the inn’s next caretaker, Okko discovers there are spirits who live there that only she can see – not scary ones, but welcoming ghosts who keep her company, play games and help her navigate her new environment. The inn’s motto is that it welcomes all and will reject none, and this is soon put to the test as a string of new guests challenge Okko’s ability to be a gracious host.