Anne of Avonlea

L. M. Montgomery

Tundra, Sep 9, 2014 - Juvenile Fiction - 352 pages

 In the years since she arrived at Green Gables, Anne has earned the love and respect of the people of Avonlea--as well as a reputation for getting herself into predicaments. Now sixteen years old--and bound and determined to look after Marilla in the wake of Matthew's death--she's about to begin her job as the town's new schoolteacher. Soon enough she is the one learning lessons, however, as she starts to realize how complicated life can be. In her usual well-intentioned but meddlesome way, Anne is quickly interfering in a new friend's thwarted romance, coping with two new orphans at Green Gables, and getting drawn into the lives of her mostly charming and occasionally exasperating students at Avonlea school.
     The once awkward, freckle-faced little girl is now a mature and responsible young woman, but Anne's imaginative spirit is as strong as ever in this sequel to the much-loved Anne of Green Gables.

Contents

• An Irate Neighbor: 1
• Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure: 13
• Mr Harrison at Home: 21
• Different Opinions: 30
• A Fullfledged Schoolmaam: 36
• All Sorts and Conditions of Men and Women: 44
• The Pointing of Duty: 57
• Marilla Adopts Twins: 64
• A Question of Color: 75
• Davy in Search of a Sensation: 83
• Facts and Fancies: 95
• A Jonah Day: 108
• A Golden Picnic: 117
• A Danger Averted: 129
• The Beginning of Vacation: 143
• The Substance of Things Hoped For: 153
• A Chapter of Accidents: 161

About the author

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was born in what is now New London, Prince Edward Island, and raised by her grandparents after the death of her mother when she was just two. She worked for a time as a teacher and a journalist, then wrote her first novel, Anne of Green Gables, in the evenings while caring for her grandmother. When the book appeared in 1908, it was an instant success; it would go on to sell millions of copies in dozens of languages the world over, making Anne one of literature's most beloved characters of all time.

Elly MacKay is a paper artist and a children's book author and illustrator. She studied illustration and printmaking at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and at the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand. Her distinctive pieces are made using paper and ink, and then are set into a miniature theatre and photographed, giving them their unique three-dimensional quality. Elly lives in Owen Sound, Ontario, with her husband and two children.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Anne of Avonlea; Volume 2 of Anne of Green Gables
• Author: L. M. Montgomery
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Tundra, 2014
• ISBN: 1770497331, 9781770497337
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes; Juvenile Fiction / Girls & Women