Part of Anne of Green Gables, book 7
First published 2021
Anne Shirley has grown up and married Gilbert. Now she mothers six spirited children who have claimed Rainbow Valley as their secret refuge. When the Meredith family moves into the old mansion next door, everything changes. The Merediths bring two boys, two girls, and a runaway girl named Mary Vance into Anne's children's world. The combined group of young adventurers hatches ambitious plans from their valley hideout. They scheme to rescue Mary from returning to the orphanage. They plot to bring happiness to the melancholy minister. They even devise a way to save their pet rooster from becoming dinner. Each plan leads to new complications in the sun-filled valley where the children gather. The story follows their determined efforts to solve grown-up problems with childhood logic and fierce loyalty to each other.
Genres: fiction, family, 20th-century, adventure, 19th-century
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, whimsical
Tropes: found-family
Setting: Rainbow Valley
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century
227 pages · Paperback · Bantam Books