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What if growing up means keeping your imagination—and learning when to put your plans aside?
At sixteen, Anne Shirley steps into the Avonlea schoolroom as its teacher. In L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Avonlea, the imaginative girl now faces the work of guiding children, helping at Green Gables, and finding her place in a farming village on Prince Edward Island.
When Marilla takes in orphan twins Davy and Dora Keith, Anne has more to learn at home, too. With Diana Barry and her friends, she also sets out to improve Avonlea. But curious children, unexpected neighbors, and her own quick temper keep testing her good intentions, often with funny results.
What you’ll discover
- A teacher still learning Stand beside Anne as her first classroom tests both her ideals and her patience.
- More life at Green Gables Meet Davy and Dora, whose arrival gives Anne and Marilla new responsibilities at home.
- Friendship through changing years Follow Anne and Diana as their loyal bond makes room for growing up.
- Wonder beyond the schoolroom Visit Echo Lodge among the spruce trees and meet the gentle, romantic Miss Lavendar.
- People before perfect plans Enjoy warm village humor as Anne discovers how little good intentions can settle.
Who will love it
You will love this book if you enjoy warm country stories, funny children, close friendships and a heroine who talks to trees. It suits anyone who likes gentle humor and small-town neighbors.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A runaway cow turns an enemy into a friend
- Anne tries to rule her school by kindness
- Marilla takes in twins who need raising
- Paul Irving shows what imagination can build
- The improvement society learns the price of good intentions
- A Jonah day teaches Anne something about herself
- A golden picnic leads to Hester Gray's garden
- Miss Lavendar's stone house hides a lost romance
- A storm, a surprise and a door to college
- Imagination and plain facts keep company in Avonlea
Who’s who
- Anne ShirleyA red-haired schoolteacher of sixteen with a big imagination and a habit of rash mistakes, she wants to inspire her pupils and add beauty to life.
- Marilla CuthbertThe stern, practical woman of Green Gables raises Anne and the twins, and she wants to do her duty while her eyesight fails.
- Diana BarryAnne's dearest friend, loyal and practical, enjoys Anne's adventures and wants a happy home of her own.
- Gilbert BlytheA former rival turned friend, he teaches at White Sands, plans to become a doctor and quietly hopes for Anne's love.
- Davy KeithA six-year-old orphan full of mischief and questions, he wants to have fun and to be as good as Paul.
- Paul IrvingA dreamy ten-year-old from the States, he tells fairy stories about his rock people and adores his beautiful teacher.
- Mr. HarrisonA blunt, lonely neighbor with a parrot named Ginger, he wants peace and learns to enjoy company.
- Miss Lavendar LewisA white-haired woman in a stone house, she fills her loneliness with pretend tea parties and echoes.
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Anne of Avonlea
by L. M. Montgomery · 1909
A furious neighbor, a stray cow and a girl with a Virgil book begin Anne Shirley's grown-up years.
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In short
A tall girl of sixteen and a half sits on a red sandstone doorstep on Prince Edward Island, meaning to translate Virgil. Instead she dreams of the famous students she will one day inspire.
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- 87,300 words
- Library level
- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
- First published
- 1909by L. M. Montgomery
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A runaway cow turns an enemy into a friend
Mr. Harrison is the new neighbor next to Green Gables, and Avonlea has decided he is a crank. He lives alone with a swearing parrot named Ginger. One afternoon he finds Anne's Jersey cow, Dolly, in his oats for the third time. He storms across the fence and insults Anne's red hair, and she answers by mocking his bald head.
Anne cools down and gives him her word that Dolly will never trespass again. The next day she and Diana Barry chase a Jersey cow out of those very oats. Anne is so worn out that she sells the cow on the spot for twenty dollars. Then she goes home and finds Dolly still shut in her own pen. She has sold Mr. Harrison's cow.
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Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Avonlea. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/anne-of-avonlea.
Montgomery, L. M. (2026). Anne of Avonlea. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/anne-of-avonlea (Original work published 1909)
Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Avonlea. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/anne-of-avonlea.
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What is Anne of Avonlea about?
It follows Anne Shirley from sixteen and a half to eighteen and a half on Prince Edward Island. She teaches the village school, starts an improvement society, helps raise orphaned twins, and befriends neighbors, including a lonely woman in a stone house.
Do I need to read Anne of Green Gables first?
It helps, because the book mentions Anne's earlier adventures, but the story stands on its own. Each chapter explains its people and places clearly, so a new reader can follow Anne's life easily.
Who are Davy and Dora?
They are six-year-old twins who come to Green Gables when their mother dies. Dora is neat and quiet, while Davy is full of mischief and questions. Their different natures fill many of the book's funniest scenes.
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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