Just David

A boy with only one word in his vocabulary - "sunny" - loses everything and finds a home. When David's father dies during their journey to meet family, the young boy is left alone in an unfamiliar farming town, unable to read his father's handwriting, not even knowing his own last name. A stern farmer and his wife take him in, expecting to teach this strange child their ways. Instead, David teaches them. With nothing but a violin and an inexhaustible capacity for joy, he moves through the community like light through a window, slowly dissolving the hardness in every heart he meets. This is the story of how one child, armed with nothing but music and wonder, transforms the people around him even as he grieves what he's lost. Originally published in 1916, this is the lesser-known sibling to "Pollyanna" - a novel that carries the same luminous faith in human goodness but buries it deeper in soil that's harder to break.