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What makes a childhood linger: the games, the quarrels, or the girl whose stories hold everyone spellbound?
On Prince Edward Island, the King family farm becomes a whole world of fields, lanes and orchards. Sara Stanley, known as the Story Girl, lives among her cousins and draws them close with her tales. Around her, children play, make plans, argue and sometimes find their way into trouble.
Beverley King tells the story as a grown man, looking back fondly on those country days with his brother Felix, their cousins and their neighbours. L. M. Montgomery builds this novel from small adventures rather than a racing plot. What matters is friendship, imagination and the question of why ordinary moments stay with us.
What you’ll discover
- A voice that enchants Meet Sara Stanley, whose gift for telling tales holds her cousins and friends spellbound.
- A farm-sized world Wander the King family's fields, lanes and orchards through the children's shared days.
- Small mischief, real feeling Follow games, schemes and quarrels that give these country friendships their warmth and friction.
- A circle of companions Spend time with firm-tempered Felicity, Cecily, Felix and farm boy Peter Craig.
- Childhood seen through memory See how Beverley's fond recollections lend ordinary adventures the glow of something lost.
Who will love it
Readers who love sunlit farm summers, family humor, old orchards, and the sound of a good tale told aloud will feel at home, as will anyone who remembers a childhood friend with big dreams.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Two brothers come home to an orchard
- A girl whose voice makes words live
- Church, a locked room, and a rich man
- Magic seed, a picture, and hard lessons
- A week without grown-ups and its mishaps
- The day the world is supposed to end
- Dream books, a witch, and a sick cat
- Sermons, apples, and a fight about prayer
- What the summer is really about
Who’s who
- Beverley KingThe narrator, a thirteen-year-old from Toronto who looks back on the summer, writes everything down and admires the Story Girl.
- Felix KingBeverley's plump, serious younger brother, who longs to be thin and cares fiercely about winning the Ordeal of Bitter Apples.
- The Story Girl (Sara Stanley)A fourteen-year-old with a magical voice, who tells tales, dreams of travel and fame, and cannot cook to save her life.
- Felicity KingA pretty, vain twelve-year-old and excellent cook who bosses her cousins and wants to be seen as interesting.
- Cecily KingFelicity's gentle sister, eleven, who prays, peacemakes, nurses the sick and wishes her hair would curl.
- Dan KingTheir thirteen-year-old brother, freckled and stubborn, with a wide mouth, a doubting mind and a taste for defying Felicity.
- Peter CraigThe hired boy, sharp and honest, who works for his keep, quotes his Aunt Jane, and wants his own farm someday.
- Sara RayA pale, tearful neighbor girl with a strict mother, who longs to join every adventure and always cries.
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La ragazza delle storie
by L. M. Montgomery · 1911
Two Toronto brothers arrive at an island orchard where a girl with a bell-like voice turns every day into a story.
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The Story Girl is a novel by L. M. Montgomery, set on a farm in Prince Edward Island and told by a grown man looking back on one summer of his boyhood. Beverley King and his brother Felix leave Toronto in May, because their father must go to Rio de Janeiro for work.
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Two brothers come home to an orchard
The story begins on a train leaving Toronto. Beverley and Felix King are going to Prince Edward Island because their father has taken a promotion in Rio de Janeiro. Their mother died before they could remember her, so the boys are sent to Uncle Alec and Aunt Janet on the family homestead. Their housekeeper takes them as far as Charlottetown and hands them over with great relief.
The drive to Carlisle with Uncle Alec is twenty-four miles, and the boys love him before it ends. He is small and gentle, with tired blue eyes just like their father's. In the dark they spot the huge willow that Grandfather King grew from a switch stuck in the ground. Everything matches what their father described, and the boys feel they have left exile behind.
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What is The Story Girl about?
It follows brothers Beverley and Felix King, who spend a season on their father's family farm on Prince Edward Island. With their cousins, a hired boy and the storyteller Sara Stanley, they play, quarrel, pray and tell tales.
Why is she called the Story Girl?
Sara Stanley is called the Story Girl because she tells tales so well, and because another girl nearby is also named Sara. She prefers the nickname to her own name.
Is The Story Girl a true story?
It is fiction, written by L. M. Montgomery and set on a farm in Prince Edward Island in a time of horses, lamps and orchards. The family, its customs and its tales feel real, but the characters are invented.
The author
L. M. Montgomery
1874–1942 · Canadian novelist
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) was a Canadian writer born on Prince Edward Island. She later lived in Ontario, where she died in Toronto. She wrote novels, short stories and poems. Her novels include Anne of Green Gables (1908), Anne of Avonlea (1909) and The Blue Castle (1926).
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