When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. Read Anne of Green Gables for free online at Page by Page Books.
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2 Anne of Avonlea
3 Anne of the Island
4 Anne of Windy Poplars
5 Anne's House of Dreams
6 Anne of Ingleside
7 Rainbow Valley
8 Rilla of Ingleside
9 The Blythes Are Quoted
- Chronicles of Avonlea
- Further Chronicles of Avonlea
authorized prequel Before Green Gables (2008) by Budge Wilson
