Emily has a vivid imagination and dreams of becoming a famous writer, but her entire world crumbles around her when her father passes away, and she is sent to New Moon farm to live with her strict aunt. Follow Emily's coming-of-age journey as she narrowly escapes death, has psychic experiences, and makes lifelong friends. She struggles to balance her ambitions of fame with her chaotic life as she slowly learns to call New Moon home.
L. M. Montgomery wrote The Emily Starr Series following the international success of her Anne of Green Gables series. Both Emily and Anne are widely imaginative and hot-headed orphan girls trying to find their place on Prince Edward Island. Yet, where Anne is welcomed by kind strangers and is quick to make friends, Emily's adventure is one of dark turns and strong-willed bravery.
Gathering all three Emily Starr stories into one volume, this Read & Co. Children's edition holds the complete trilogy in a single beautiful keepsake – a wonderful gift for lifelong fans of Anne of Green Gables and for any child with big dreams and a love of words.
L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942) was a Canadian author whose fiction drew on the landscape of her native Prince Edward Island. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), has sold more than fifty million copies and been translated into thirty-six languages. Throughout her life, she wrote more than twenty novels across several beloved series – the further Anne books, the Emily of New Moon trilogy, the Story Girl books, and the Pat of Silver Bush novels – as well as standalones such as Jane of Lantern Hill. Her work remains among the best-loved in classic children's literature.