Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables Series #8)

by L. M. Montgomery

Overview

Anne's children were almost grown up, except for  pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one could resist  her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla,  almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than  going to her very first dance at the Four Winds  lighthouse and getting her first kiss from  handsome

Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges  await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of  Ingleside becomes endangered by a far-off war. Her  brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home an  orphaned newborn in a soup tureen. She is swept into  a drama that tests her courage and leaves her changed forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780553269222
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	11/28/1985
Series:	Anne of Green Gables , #8
Edition description:	Collectors
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	677,113
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 6.88(h) x 0.79(d)
Lexile:	1030L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

L. M. Montgomery was born in 1874 on Prince Edward Island in Canada, the setting of 19 of her 20 novels. Included among these books are her beloved Anne of Green Gables series and a number of other novels and short story collections. She died in Toronto in 1942.

Editorial Reviews

Many know of the young Anne of Green Gables. However, many fewer know that Montgomery continued Anne's saga through her adult years. This work, the final installment, concerns Anne and Gilber’s youngest child, daughter Rilla. It is the summer of 1914, and Rilla is a typically frivolous adolescent girl of 15. However, as the war engulfs her world, she becomes a woman, who must embrace triumphs and tragedies. Barbara Caruso gives a winsome performance in keeping with the heroine. Caruso’s voice is clear and her delivery soft. She performs each character with energy and great expression, affecting a separate voice for each. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

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