Rilla of Ingleside

Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the eighth of nine books in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery but was the sixth Anne novel in publication order. Annes children were almost grown up except for pretty high-spirited Rilla. No one could resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla almost fifteen cant think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside becomes endangered by a far-off war. Her brothers go off to fight and Rilla brings home an orphaned newborn in a soup tureen. She is swept into a drama that tests her courage and leaves her changed forever.