Anne of Avonlea

Anne of Avonlea is the second book in the series Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Coming after Anne of Green Gables, his book follows Anne Shirley from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well as new ones like Mr. Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy. The book's title is fitting, as Anne is no longer simply "of Green Gables" as she was in the previous book, but now takes her place among the "important" people (and the "grown up" people) of Avonlea society, as its only schoolteacher. She is also a founding member of the A. V. I. S. (the Avonlea Village Improvement Society), which tries to improve (with questionable results) the Avonlea landscape. This book sees Anne maturing slightly, even though she still cannot avoid getting into a number of her familiar scrapes, as only Anne can-some of which include selling her neighbor's cow (having mistaken it for her own), or getting stuck in a broken duck house roof while peeping into a pantry window. Since publication, the Anne of Green Gables series have sold more than 50 million copies and have been translated into 20 languages.