Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Anne of Green Gables in the heart-warming story of a young orphan who is adopted by a
brother and sister who live on Prince Edward Island (Canada). Although they originally wanted a boy, when Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert met Anne, "spelt with an 'E' ", she became an irreplacable part of their lives. Anne Shirley is a red-headed, gray-eyed dreamer, whose greastest woe is her hair, as well as her freckles. In this first book of an 8-book series about Anne's life, she is introduced to life on P.E.I. As well as attending school, Anne gets herself into various "scrapes", including a scene where she is forced to accept rescue from her arch-rival, Gilbert Blythe, who earned her eternal enmity by calling her "Carrots" on account of her red hair. Another one of Anne's "scrapes" occurs when she, longing for hair "as black as a raven's wing", buys some hair dye from an Italian peddler. Unfortunately, this dye, which was "guaranteed" to turn her hair balck, actually turns it a hideous shade of green. Anne is forced to let Marilla chop off all of the now-green hair, leaving her shorn and unhappy. One more dilemma that Anne gets herself into
happens when she invites her "bosom friend", Diana Barry, over for an elegant tea. Sadly, Anne, not knowing the difference, gives Dianna currant wine instead of raspberry cordial. Diana becomes drunk, stumbles home, and proceeds to be sick in the Barry garden. Her mother, convinced that Anne have her alcohol purposely, forbids Diana to be friends with Anne. Later, this harsh sentence is retracted when Anne saves Minnie May, Diana's younger sister, from dying of croup. All in all, this book is chock-full of good old-fashioned values. It's a very comfortable story, and one that you will want to read again and again. I highly recommend this book!
brother and sister who live on Prince Edward Island (Canada). Although they originally wanted a boy, when Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert met Anne, "spelt with an 'E' ", she became an irreplacable part of their lives. Anne Shirley is a red-headed, gray-eyed dreamer, whose greastest woe is her hair, as well as her freckles. In this first book of an 8-book series about Anne's life, she is introduced to life on P.E.I. As well as attending school, Anne gets herself into various "scrapes", including a scene where she is forced to accept rescue from her arch-rival, Gilbert Blythe, who earned her eternal enmity by calling her "Carrots" on account of her red hair. Another one of Anne's "scrapes" occurs when she, longing for hair "as black as a raven's wing", buys some hair dye from an Italian peddler. Unfortunately, this dye, which was "guaranteed" to turn her hair balck, actually turns it a hideous shade of green. Anne is forced to let Marilla chop off all of the now-green hair, leaving her shorn and unhappy. One more dilemma that Anne gets herself into 
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