Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables Illustrated Lucy Maud Montgomery

""There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."Elderly siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert apply to adopt a young orphan boy to help them out on their farm in Prince Edward Island. When Matthew arrives at the train station, he discovers that the orphanage has made a mistake they sent a skinny 11-year-old redhead named Anne Shirley instead. Through friendships, rivalries, and baking disasters, Anne grows from precocious to purposeful as she creates a space for herself among the residents of Avonlea. A coming-of-age story about following the beat of your own drum regardless of what others may say Anne of Green Gables was featured on PBS Reads as one of America's best-loved novels, and inspired the hit TV series Anne with an E."