Eleanor H. Porter 
Pollyanna [EPUB ebook] 

As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody’s life. The ‘glad game’ she plays, of finding a silver lining in every cloud, transforms the sick, the lonely and the plain miserable — until one day something so terrible happens that even Pollyanna doesn’t know how ot feel glad about it.