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Anne of Avonlea
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Anne of Green Gables: Book 2

Anne of Avonlea (1909) (edit title/settings)

by L. M. Montgomery (Author) (edit contributors)

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Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher and the real test of her character begins. She is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone's else's romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the stranger.

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The book starts by revealing that Anne is to be the teacher of the Avonlea School, although she will still continue her studies at home with Gilbert, who is teaching at the nearby White Sands School. The book soon introduces Anne's new and problematic neighbor, Mr. Harrison and his obscene... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

The book starts by revealing that Anne is to be the teacher of the Avonlea School, although she will still continue her studies at home with Gilbert, who is teaching at the nearby White Sands School. The book soon introduces Anne's new and problematic neighbor, Mr. Harrison and his obscene parrot, as well as the twins, Davy and Dora. They are the children of Marilla's third cousin and she adopts them when their mother dies. Dora is a nice, well-behaved girl, while Davy is a little more of a handful and gets into many scrapes. Other characters introduced are some of Anne's new pupils, such as Paul Irving, an American boy living with his grandma in Avonlea. He delights Anne because of his imagination and childish ways, which are a lot like Anne's in her childhood. Later in the book, Anne and her friends meet Miss Lavender, a nice but lonely lady who had been engaged to Paul's father 25 years before.

Among other things, during this book, Anne discovers the delights and troubles of being a teacher, takes part in the raising of Davy and Dora, and organizes the A.V.I.S. (Avonlea Village Improvement Society), which tries to bring improvements to Avonlea with questionable results, at first.

At the end, Anne and Gilbert go off to college, while Miss Lavender marries her long time engagement, Mr. Irving.

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.

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  • Anne Shirley: Once a spunky, freckled orphan who has grown up into a beautiful teacher of the Avonlea school. She still has not lost her imaginative spirit.
  • Marilla Cuthbert: The woman who took Anne in six years before, Marilla now gets along with Anne much better.
  • Gilbert Blythe: Anne's childhood enemy and now good friend. Gilbert is also a teacher at the nearby White Sands School. He is in love with Anne but does not yet admit it to her.
  • Diana Barry: Anne's kindred spirit since childhood. The two remain best friends.
  • Davy Keith: One of the twins who Marilla takes in. Davy is mischievous, loves to eat sweets and rarely does what he is told. He has fair, fuzzy ringlets all over his head, one dimple, roguish hazel eyes, a snub nose and is often smiling.
  • Miss Lavendar Lewis: An imaginative, lovely, old maid with snow white hair who Anne and Diana love! She is loving, and most of all, sweet like lavender. She's got many stories to tell, and they have all the time to listen. Soon after, she gets married to her old childhood sweetheart.
  • Paul Irving: One of Anne's students, an imaginative young boy and a fast friend for Anne. He was raised in the United States and has come to Avonlea to live with his paternal grandmother.
  • Mr. J.A. Harrison: Anne and Marilla's new neighbour, a man who initially appears bad-tempered, but becomes a good friend of Anne with his grounded and practical attitude. He has a very rude parrot named Ginger, who likes to discriminate Annes red hair.
  • Dora Keith: One of the twins, boringly good
  • Mrs. Rachel Lynde: Nosy neighbor.
  • Charlotta the Fourth: Miss Lavender's servant, the fourth Charlotta in her service, all sisters.
  • Priscilla: Anne's friend
  • Mrs. Morgan: a lovely writer and idol of anne's
  • Mary Joe: Servant of Diana's family
  • Anthony Pye: Anne's frustrating student that she eventually wins over after she whips him on her 'Jonas' day, when she is in a foul mood
  • Mrs. Allan: Minister's wife
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  • Jane Andrews: Anne's friend
  • Judson Parker
  • Milty Boulter
  • Annetta Bell
  • Matthew: Marilla's brother (deceased)
  • Hester Gray: Poetic dead lady
  • Stephen Irving: Paul's father, estranged from Miss Lavender
  • Emily
  • Mr. Shearer
  • Mr. Blair
  • Barbara Shaw: Anne's awkward student
  • Gertie
  • John Henry
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  • “But that had been in springtime; and this was late autumn, and all the woods were leafless and the fields sere and brown. The sun was just setting with a great deal of purple and golden pomp behind the dark woods west of Avonlea when a buggy drawn by a comfortable brown nag came down the hill.”
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  • “The girls went home by the light of a calm golden sunset, their baskets filled with narcissus blossoms from Hester's garden, some of which Anne carried to the cemetery next day and laid upon Hester's grave. Minstrel robins were whistling in the firs and the frogs were singing in the marshes. All the basins among the hills were brimmed with topaz and emerald light.”
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  • “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything splendid or wonderful happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
    Anne
  • “If a kiss could be seen I think it will look like a violet”
    Priscilla
  • “That's a lovely idea (...) Living so that you beautify your name even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with...making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself”
    Anne
  • “Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music.”
    Author

First Sentence edit see section history

A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey 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.

Table of Contents edit see section history

I An Irate Neighbor
II Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure
III Mr. Harrison at Home
IV Different Opinions
V A Fullfledged Schoolma'am
VI All Sorts and Conditions of Men... and Women
VII The Pointing of Duty
VIII Marilla Adopts Twins
IX A Question of Color
X Davy in Search of a Sensation
XI Facts and Fancies
XII A Jonah Day
XIII A Golden Picnic
XIV A Danger Averted
XV The Beginning of Vacation
XVI The Substance of Things Hoped For
XVII A Chapter of Accidents
XVIII An Adventure on the Tory Road
XIX Just a Happy Day
XX The Way It Often Happens
XXI Sweet Miss Lavendar
XXII Odds and Ends
XXIII Miss Lavendar's Romance
XXIV A Prophet in His Own Country
XXV An Avonlea Scandal
XXVI Around the Bend
XXVII An Afternoon at the Stone House
XXVIII The Prince Comes Back to the Enchanted Palace
XXIX Poetry and Prose
XXX A Wedding at the Stone House

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 8 in Anne of Green Gables. (standard series)

Preceded by Anne of Green Gables, and followed by Anne of the Island.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. L. M. Montgomery (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: L.C. Page & Co
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 1909
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 367

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Also enjoyable by older readers

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