"Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of summerside-and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School."--Back cover.

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...

Anne Shirely has enough to worry about, what with five children, another on the way, and a prolongued visit from insufferable Aunt Mary Maria, without the additional worry that her husband Gilbert does not love her any longer.

Anne's children are almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. At almost fifteen, Rilla can't think further ahead than going to her first dance and getting her first kiss. But new challenges await her when her brothers go off to fight in a war and she brings home an orphaned newborn in a soup tureen.

A must-read for generations of book lovers, this remarkable prequel to the classic Anne of Green Gables was specially authorized by L. M. Montgomery's heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel. Before Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley's life before her arrival at Green Gables-a heartwarming tale of a precocious child whose lively imagination and relentless spirit help her to overcome difficult circumstances...