Eleven-year-old orphan Anne Shirley has red hair, a vivid imagination and cannot stop talking. So she causes quite a stir when she arrives in the town of Avonlea - especially as Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert thought they were adopting a boy to help on the farm! Anne is soon the talk of the town with her funny ways and endless adventures, but it is not long before she has won the hearts of everyone. This classic story is set in Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century and is one of the most enduring favourites of children’s literature.