sentences:  She attends a local school whilst helping the adult maids with the day-to-day duties of running the household, has her friends, Pauline and Stefan, and loves her adopted family (Ellie and Sigrid, and the three professors who they all work for) very much.Annika is asked by Loremarie Egghart, a snobby rich girl whom Annika despises, to read to her great-aunt.Annika does so and the two (Annika and Loremarie's great aunt) become friends, telling each other about their lives.