Anne of Green Gables

Follow the adventures of spirited reader Anne Shirley as she settles into her new home makes friends and stirs up trouble.Farm-owning siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert want to adopt a boy to help them around the farm. In a mix-up the orphanage sends them the active and imaginative Anne Shirley instead. They make the most of the mistake as Anne becomes the beloved heart of the family and community as well as of generations of readers.Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley has never known a real home. Since her parents deaths shes bounced around to foster homes and orphanages. When she is sent by mistake to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables she wants to stay forever. But Anne is not the sturdy boy Matthew and Marilla were expecting.Shes a mischievous talkative redheaded girl with a fierce temper who tumbles into one scrape after another. Anne is not like anybody else the Cuthberts agree; she is special a girl with an enormous imagination. All shes ever wanted is to belong somewhere. And the longer she stays at Green Gables the harder it is for anyone to imagine life without her.