Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks.
They didn’t want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there…
They didn’t want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there…
Glossary
- adopt to take the child of another person into your family to become your own child
- beard the hair on a man’s face
- blind not able to see
- branch one of the ‘arms’ of a tree
- college a place where people go to study, after leaving school
- examination a test of what someone knows or can do
- farm fields and buildings where people grow food and keep animals
- firmly showing that you have decided something
- forgive (past tense forgave) to show or say that you are not angry with somebody any more
- freckles small brown marks on a person’s skin (often on the face)
- hate opposite of love
- heart the part of your body that pushes the blood round
- horrible very bad
- imagine to make a picture of something in your head
- knee the part in the middle of your leg where it bends
- medicine a special drink that helps someone who is ill to get better
- miss to feel sad when someone has gone away
- orphan a child whose parents are dead; orphans often live in a children’s home
- plait long pieces of hair put over and under each other to make one thick piece
- prize a kind of ‘present’ which somebody gets if they win or come first in something (e.g. an examination)
- rude not polite
- sad unhappy
- shy not sure of yourself; finding it difficult to talk to people
- sob (past tense sobbed) to cry loudly and very unhappily
- study (past tense studied) to read, think, and learn
- vicar a priest in the Protestant Church
- whisper to speak very softly and quietly
- worried feeling that something is wrong