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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
You will love this book if you enjoy warm, funny stories of country childhood, orchards, friends who tease and forgive, and storytellers who turn a cloud into a legend.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A voice brings the summer alive
- The orchard holds the family's stories
- Friendship makes room for a mistake
- Keeping house exposes everyone's weaknesses
- Shared fear draws the children together
- Belief gives their games real stakes
- Stories can hold another kind of truth
- Belonging grows through kindness and forgiveness
- Memory gives ordinary days their meaning
Who’s who
- Beverley KingThe narrator, a thirteen-year-old from Toronto who wants to grow tall, writes well, and tells the summer's story years later.
- Felix KingBeverley's plump, solemn younger brother, who is tired of being teased about his weight and badly wants to win a contest.
- The Story Girl (Sara Stanley)A fourteen-year-old cousin with a magical voice who tells tales, hopes to be an actress, and cannot cook.
- Felicity KingA beautiful, vain and bossy twelve-year-old who bakes beautifully and wants to be admired and obeyed.
- Cecily KingFelicity's kind, devout sister who nurses the sick, makes peace, and wants everyone to be good.
- Dan KingThe cousins' stubborn, freckled brother who doubts everything, hates being bossed, and is ashamed of his big mouth.
- Peter CraigA clever hired boy who wants to be respectable and own cows, and quotes his dead Aunt Jane.
- Sara RayA timid, tearful neighbor whose strict mother forbids almost everything, and who longs to join in.
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The Story Girl
by L. M. Montgomery · 1911
Two brothers from Toronto reach a Prince Edward Island orchard farm, where a girl's voice holds sway over their summer.
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“I do like a road, because you can always wonder what’s at the end of it.”
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What would you give to hear a voice that makes a plain good morning feel like the best morning ever? Felix and Beverley King hear it the day after they reach Prince Edward Island.
The Story Girl at a glance
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- About 5 h 50 min4 h 40 min fast, 6 h 55 min slow
- Length
- 83,400 words
- Library level
- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
- First published
- 1911by L. M. Montgomery
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From the 15-minute summary · Key idea 1
Two brothers come home to the orchard
The story opens on a train leaving Toronto in May. Beverley and Felix King are headed for the island home their father has described all their lives. Their father has been called to Rio de Janeiro for work, so the boys are sent to the old King homestead in Carlisle, to live with Uncle Alec and Aunt Janet.
They arrive after dark, yet everything matches their father's stories. There is the giant willow, the low kitchen hung with hams, and the lavender sheets under a patchwork quilt. Felix whispers that the singing frogs are the very frogs their father heard. Beverley doubts it, and Felix calls them descendants.
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Montgomery, L. M. The Story Girl. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-story-girl.
Montgomery, L. M. (2026). The Story Girl. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-story-girl (Original work published 1911)
Montgomery, L. M. The Story Girl. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-story-girl.
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What is The Story Girl about?
It follows several months in Carlisle, Prince Edward Island, where brothers Felix and Beverley King stay with their cousins. The children play, quarrel, bake and test their beliefs, while a gifted cousin called the Story Girl tells tales that color their days.
Why is Sara Stanley called the Story Girl?
The cousins give her the name because she is a wonderful storyteller. It also helps tell her apart from Sara Ray, another girl in the group, and Sara Stanley prefers it to her own name.
Is The Story Girl a true story?
It is a work of fiction published in 1911, though the island setting and the feel of country childhood come from the author's own world. The tales the Story Girl tells are legends, scrapbook stories and local anecdotes.
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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