Heidi Grows Up

Heidi Grows Up (a.k.a. Heidi Grows Up: A Sequel to Heidi ) is a 1938 novel and sequel to Johanna Spyri's Heidi, written by Spyri's French and English translator, Charles Tritten, after an three-decade long period of pondering what to write, since Spyri's death gave no sequel of her own. It was originally published by Flammarion in Paris (1936), and in New York by Grosset & Dunlap (1938), illustrated by Jean Coquillot.

It was followed by three sequels more: Heidi's Children, one year later and two later novels, neither which have been translated to English.

Plot

Hoping for finish in a cultural school, Heidi's grandfather sends his adolescent to the boarding school Hawkthorn, where Clara gratuated. While her homesickness is soon overcome by the city's sight that night, she makes problems at the school, including by ignoring the rules by the headmistress, the English Miss Smith. After a few weeks, she befriends most of the foreign students, except one who teases her while Heidi practices her violin in her music classes. At the summer break, Eileen doesn't want to end up alone in the summer, since both her parents are away on holidays, so Heidi therefore offers her a vacation up on the Alm, which, after some arguing, Eileen is able to accept and Miss Smith agrees with the idea and to chaperoning them.

On the Alm, Smith just waits for the next train, while Heidi shares wonderful sights of the mountains with Eileen, but along the way, is Eileen's necklace lost and they track their whole way back to search for it. After that fails, they turn back up and Eileen first sights Peter's goat flock dancing on the zig-zag path up to Dorfli, including Peter himself, who meets Heidi again, then introduces the new little baby goat; Baerli ("The Little One Who Bleats"). They rest in their doctor, Reboux's house. The next morning, after the goats are called to the pasture, Heidi meets her grandfather again, too, who agrees to let Eileen go up with Heidi and Peter to the goat pasture, where Peter leads the girls to the top of a nearby peak, which many of the goats follow to easily, but Baerli gets into a dangerous situation, which Peter, Heidi and Eileen rescue him from.

Back at the cabin a while later, Heidi and Eileen are sent down to get some things for Peter and his goats, but while they're gone down, she sees clouds go down over the mountains, down to the village, which come over them, while they end up staying at Reboux's mansion. An varied storm breaks and eventually, someone announces the grandfather's house is on fire. When Heidi runs out and sees it herself, she runs, repeaditly calling his name, while the others, the most of all Peter, albeit on the path, follows Heidi, catching up to her, finding his goats, then the old man himself, grieving under the fir trees. The next days, he and other villagers make plans and eventually rebuild just about the entire house, with many improvements. Grandfather telling Heidi and Eileen legends that excited the latter quite through the rest of the summer vacation and much later, at the school graduation, Heidi leaves with wishes of good luck, but also with an ridiculed mission of cheering prisoners.

As an adult, she gets approved for her teacher certification, but after some lonely school days, the kids eventually arrive. One of them break the flowerpot and disappears the days after, and Heidi subsequently asks the villagers for where he's gone. One night, Peter informs her he's found the child and the next day, a sudden off-touring gets them to a cave the child has hidden in, which turns out to be because of the teacher's treatment of him, including putting him (along with other children, also incidentally) in the "school dungeon" Heidi had discovered in the school some time into her lonely first teaching days. The kid's eventually back at school, well dressed and the "dungeon" is turned back into the closets they previously were. While Peter questions Heidi of her being able to care her grandfather with her job times, Eileen accepts the invitation to replace her, but Heidi's grandfather falls sick, but which he promises to recover from, which he does, when Peter, Heidi and the villagers of Dorfli set up a wedding, after Peter asks Heidi if she would marry him, where he comes in his green Sunday suit, along with an Eileen-led children's choir of the school students and other guests including Heidi's old friend, Clara, grown into 'quite a woman' and Eileen's little sister, Martha. But the couple sneaks out of their wedding to watch the sun sink again, which the grandfather joins them in on soon and Peter finishes the book, with saying: "It will never have seen such a happy day as this."