Anne of Green Gables is the classic story and first book in Lucy MaudMontgomerys beloved series about a precocious girl Anne Shirley. Thiswonderfully funny stor... » 

Anne of Green Gables is the classic story and first book in Lucy MaudMontgomerys beloved series about a precocious girl Anne Shirley. Thiswonderfully funny story follows young orphaned Anne as she moves to the smalltown of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island Canada and finds people to love findsher place in the world and eventually grows into her own. This is a timelessstory of childhood mistakes and adventures that everyone should read being aparticularly poignant book for girls. Young teenagers will find this story ofadolescent joys and missteps both entertaining and meaningful. The character ofAnne Shirley quickly won over the hearts of readers when the book was publishedin 1908. Mark Twain wrote to Lucy Maud Montgomery saying Anne Shirley was thedearest and most lovable child in fiction since the immortal Alice. «