Anne of Avonlea is a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery first published in 1909. Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of sixteen to eighteen, during the two years 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 not any longer simply “of Green Gables” as she was in the previous book; she 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), trying to improve (with questionable results) the Avonlea landscape.
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