Part of Anne of Green Gables, book 1
First published 1982
Anne Shirley steps off the wagon at Green Gables farmhouse and knows immediately she belongs here. The Cuthbert siblings who took her from the orphanage expected a boy to help with farm work. Instead they got a scrawny girl with blazing red hair and a mouth that runs faster than her brain. Anne speaks her thoughts without filter and tumbles into one scrape after another. The Cuthberts must decide whether to keep this unexpected child or send her back to the orphanage. Anne desperately wants to stay at the cozy white farmhouse forever. She promises to try harder, to think before she speaks, to avoid the mishaps that seem to follow her everywhere. The Cuthberts see something the orphanage missed. This peculiar girl possesses a wild imagination that transforms ordinary Prince Edward Island into a place of wonder. Anne dreams of the day she can truly call herself Anne of Green Gables.
Genres: fiction, family, historical-fiction, 20th-century, coming-of-age, 19th-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, whimsical
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Green Gables, Prince Edward Island
Period: 19th Century
308 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Bantam Books