"'Harvest is ended and summer is gone,' quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shornfields dreamily. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from their labors in a sunny corner, where airy fleets of thistledowndrifted by on the wings of a wind that was still summer-sweet with the incense of ferns in the Haunted Wood.But everything in the landscape around them spoke of autumn. The sea was roaringhollowly...

"A tall, slim girl, 'half-past sixteen,' with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil. But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the...

Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside -- and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty,...

When her beloved father dies, thirteen-year-old Emily Starr, orphaned and lonely, is sent to live with her mother's relatives at New Moon Farm, but despite her stern Aunt Elizabeth and malicious classmates, Emily's quick wit and lively imagination help her to form friendships and begin to feel at home.

There's never a dull moment at Ingleside, Anne's lively home: Anne is now the mother of five children with a sixth baby on the way, But even with endless demands on her time, she couldn't be happier and there's nowhere in the world she'd rather be. No matter what life brings, whether it's the numerous scrapes her children get up to or Gilbert's unsufferable aunt outstaying her welcome, Anne faces every challenge with her usual verve for life. But...

Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love, as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really means....

Jane lives in Toronto with her mother and grandmother. Then one day her father sends for her -- Jane didn't even know she had a father -- to come and visit him on Prince Edward Island. And no-one, not even her mother, has ever talked to her about him.

Marigold has always lived a solitary life at her family's homestead, Cloud of Spruce, on Prince Edward Island, but her vivid imagination and lively neighbors keep things "int'resting."

"The sweet and funny second book in a new early-reader series, starring the spirited and outspoken Anne Shirley as she makes friends and settles into life at Green Gables -- with a few hijinks along the way, of course! Anne is nervous and excited to meet Diana, a neighbor girl who she just knows will be a kindred spirit. She's even more excited when she learns that she's invited to her very first picnic! Until Marilla's precious brooch goes missing...

Twelve stories of life on Prince Edward Island, home to the orphan Anne Shirley, first introduced in Anne of Green Gables.