"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...

In the third book of the series, Anne of the Green Gables, Anne Shirley, the redheaded girl of Green Gables is leaving for college with Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane. As she leaves she feels she will never see Green Gables the same way again. However new friends await Anne and new adventures. Anne receives her first proposal. Daina Berry is married. Marilla deals with the twins. The island is changing, her friends are changing but Anne remains...

"Anne is marrying Gilbert Blythe! While she's deliriously happy to finally be with her version of Prince Charming, they'll be making a new home miles away, and she'll have to leave her beloved Avonlea. But Anne is always up for adventure, especially when she has Gilbert by her side"-- Inside jacket.

The seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well as the interactions between Anne's and John Meredith's children.