"The third book in an early-reader series inspired by Anne of Green Gables, starring the spirited Anne Shirley as she navigates her first days of school and the incorrigible Gilbert Blythe."-- "Anne Shirley loves Avonlea, and she loves her new school and her best friend, Diana Barry. This year she is looking forward to new challenges. When Gilbert Blythe arrives, he immediately gets on Anne's nerves. He calls her "Carrots" because of her red hair!...

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...