Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea Annotated Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Anne of Avonlea is a 1909 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). At sixteen Anne is grown up...almost. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job a the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, and she also wonders about the strange behaviour of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe."