Anne of Avonlea

At sixteen, Anne Shirley takes charge of the Avonlea school and discovers that teaching children can be every bit as unpredictable as being one herself.New responsibilities do not quiet Anne’s imagination. She and her friends form the Avonlea Village Improvement Society with ambitious plans for improving the community, while Anne and Marilla also take responsibility for orphaned twins Davy and Dora Keith. Their arrival brings a new kind of family life into Green Gables.Montgomery builds the novel from the pleasures and frustrations of community. Anne encounters difficult pupils, eccentric neighbors, misunderstandings, unexpected friendships, and people whose private loneliness is not always visible from the outside. Her instinct for seeing possibility in others changes the lives around her even when her plans go wrong.Anne herself is changing as well. Her ambitions extend beyond Avonlea, her friendship with Gilbert Blythe continues to deepen, and childhood begins to give way to questions about education, responsibility, and the future.First published in 1909, Anne of Avonlea is the second Anne Shirley novel. Warm, funny, and rich in character, it bridges the world of Green Gables childhood with the wider possibilities waiting beyond the village.