Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, spends her time teaching the "glad game" to a new town, and a very bitter woman, Mrs. Carew, who became very bitter hearted since her sister's son, Jamie, was missing.

Along the way she makes new friends, such as Sadie and Jamie: Jamie is a delicate literary genius whose withered legs compel him to rely on a wheelchair and crutches.

Nine years later, twenty-year-old Pollyanna and her aunt fall upon hard times.

However, there are many skeletons lurking in people's closets, causing numerous misunderstandings and many revelations, including how her old childhood friend Jimmy Bean-Pendleton[2] had ended up all alone since the death of his adoptive father.

The Morning Union wrote that it is "good as it can be" and that it "will come as a real joy" to those who had enjoyed the first novel.