Anne of Avonlea - L. M. Montgomery - The second chapter in the "Anne of Green Gables" saga, "Anne of Avonlea" is the story of its title character, Anne Shirley during her tenure teaching at the Avonlea school. The novel follows the maturity of a young girl from age sixteen to eighteen. "Anne of Avonlea" is a continuation of Lucy M. Montgomery's most popular and well-loved series.

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911 in Prince Edward Island. Her three children were born at Leaskdale, and she wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the Macdonald family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. Maud died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.