Anne is an eleven-year-old orphan with red hair, a miserable life and a vivid imagination. She is sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, two middle aged siblings who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island. They are surprised when Anne comes, but after bonding with her they decide to keep her. Anne has trouble getting used to this small town but after a while she manages to win everyone's hearts in Avonlea. This won

Anne Shirley, our Anne with an E, stole our hearts from the first page of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables. Below is a reading list featuring Anne's favorite books. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Tennyson The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ by Lew Wallace The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes "I love a book that makes me cry." --- Anne Shirley, Anne of Green G