Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
ISBN: 0553152149
Publisher: Bantam Skylark, 1983
Age: 9 and up
Interest Level: 6-8
Genre: Classics, Historical Fiction
Summary: Anne Shirley, an orphan taken in by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, is spunky, precocious and very much not the boy they were expecting. They cannot resist her enthusiasm and soon she is a permanent fixture at Green Gables. She makes a bosom friend in Diana and hates Gilbert because he calls her “Carrots”; she wishes she had dark brown hair and was named Cordelia. Her adventures are crazy and unexpected, but will capture your heart.
Read A-likes: Little Women, A Little Princess, Anne of Avonlea, and Little House in the Big Woods series.
Personal Thoughts: A very precocious and almost clumsy and yet lovable character, Anne Shirley will capture your interest and heart from the very beginning. She is endearingly awkward and unbelievably self confident. She dreams big and attacks life with gusto and joy. An absolutely wonderful “coming of age” book for girls of any age. Book one of a series of eight books.
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