Anne of Green Gables

When Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, decide to adopt a child from a distant orphanage, they don't get quite what they bargained for. The child who awaits them at the tiny train station is not the strapping young boy they'd imagined - someone to help Matthew work the fields of their small farm - but rather a freckle-faced, redheaded girl named Anne (with an e, if you please).But while Marilla may not be sure about the talkative and inquisitive girl on her doorstep, when...
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When Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, decide to adopt a child from a distant orphanage, they don't get quite what they bargained for. The child who awaits them at the tiny train station is not the strapping young boy they'd imagined - someone to help Matthew work the fields of their small farm - but rather a freckle-faced, redheaded girl named Anne (with an e, if you please).But while Marilla may not be sure about the talkative and inquisitive girl on her doorstep, when Annetakes one look at Prince Edward Island's red clay roads, and the Cuthbert's quaint farmhouse and distinctive green gables, she knows she is home at last.Armed with only a battered carpetbag, a boundless imagination, and an incurably romantic spirit, Anne charms her way into the Cuthberts' hearts, as well as those of the reader. She truly is, in the words of Mark Twain, "the dearest and most lovable child in fiction since the immortal Alice."