Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

A novel about a girl who arrives somewhere no one expected her, yet ends up belonging there more than anyone else. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are two unmarried siblings, already getting on in years, who live on a farm called Green Gables. They need an orphan boy to help with the farmwork, but due to a mix-up at the orphanage they are sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley, eleven years old, red-haired, covered in freckles, thin as a rail, and with an imagination so boundless that she turns every ordinary moment into a small adventure.