Anne of Avonlea
Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Book 2 in the Anne of Green Gables series
Pages: 276
Published: 1909
Age: 10+
Five years after coming to Green Gables, Anne is 'half past sixteen' and is now ready to take her place in Avonlea society as the teacher at her former school. She is determined to inspire her pupils’ youthful hearts and minds – but some of students require more unusual teaching methods. Along with teaching the three R’s, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in other people's romances. Anne is also preoccupied with thoughts about the strange behaviour of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. These concerns, along with running the Avonlea Improvement Society, bring their own headaches for a harum-scarum girl just trying to grow up.
About the Anne of Green Gables Series
Books in series order
- 1.Anne of Green Gables(1908)
- 2.Anne of Avonlea(1909)
- 3.Anne of the Island(1915)
- 4.Anne of Windy Poplars(1936)
- 5.Anne's House of Dreams(1917)
- 6.Anne of Ingleside(1939)
- 7.Rainbow Valley(1919)
- 8.Rilla of Ingleside(1921)
- 9.The Blythes Are Quoted(2009)
- +Before Green Gables(2008)
- +Chronicles of Avonlea(1912)
- +Further Chronicles of Avonlea(1920)
Reading age: 10+ years
This series should be read in order.
When eleven-year-old orphan girl Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, with nothing but a carpetbag and an overactive imagination, she knows that she has found her ideal home. But first she must convince the Cuthberts to let her stay, even though she isn’t the boy they had hoped for. The loquacious Anne quickly finds her way into their hearts, as she has with generations of readers, and her charming adventures in Avonlea, filled with colorful characters and tender escapades, linger forever in our memories.

