Loved itI love this book. I was reading it just falling in love with Anne of Green Gables, with Green Gables, with all of the characters, and I have never felt so at home in a novel, I think, as I felt reading Anne of Green Gables.
Anne of Green Gables (1908)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
- ISBN:
- 9781454948247
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- 320 pages
Genres: fantasy, young adult
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