Anne of Avonlea
1909
- fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- orphans
- teachers
- islands
- teachers in fiction
- orphans in fiction
- prince edward island in fiction
- islands in fiction
The story
The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series.Now Anne is half past sixteen and she's ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She's as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to inspire young hearts with her own ambitions. But some of her pupils are as boisterous and high-spirited as Anne, and so life in her Avonlea classroom becomes a lesson in discovery and adventure . . .
What it’s like
Warm, unhurried country prose with a sunny, lightly comic voice: the pages keep returning to orchards in bloom, red dirt roads, sea-wind over Prince Edward Island farmland, and small rooms lit by lamp and kitchen stove. The sensory world is domestic and seasonal, full of apple blossom, sugary tea-table talk, and the smell of baking, with the Avonlea schoolhouse and its restless pupils giving the days their shape. Tone is cozy and bright with a steady undercurrent of affection and gentle melancholy, the sort of book that makes a rainy Sunday feel like a good place to be. Pacing is episodic and leisurely, built from conversations, small mishaps and reconciliations rather than tension. Anne herself moves from impetuous girlhood toward a more settled, responsible adulthood, while the people around her, neighbours and rivals and pupils, soften and open up over time. Intensity is very low: there is no real violence, and the worst moments are embarrassment, grief handled tenderly, or a scare that resolves quickly. Suited to readers who want something gentle, funny and comforting, especially fans of nineteenth-century rural settings and young heroines with big hearts.
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