#40 in Children’s books
Anne of Avonlea
- 266
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Anne of Avonlea” is a gentle, good-humoured sequel whose appeal lies in more time spent with Anne and her village. It follows her from sixteen to eighteen as a young teacher on Prince Edward Island, in a light tone built from small-town incident and friendship. Some readers find it slow beside the first book and are less convinced by some of the younger characters than they once were by Anne herself.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Anne of Avonlea is a 1909 novel by the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, who published as L. M. Montgomery. The first sequel to Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley, from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at the Avonlea school on Prince Edward Island.
Reading order · Anne of Green Gables
Full order & progress →- Anne of Green GablesStart here
8.48.4 / 10 - Anne of AvonleaThis book
8.18.1 / 10 - Anne of the Island
8.08.0 / 10 - Anne of Windy Poplars
7.87.8 / 10 - Anne's House of Dreams
8.08.0 / 10 - Anne of Ingleside
–Not ranked yet - Rainbow Valley
–Not ranked yet - Rilla of InglesideRilla of Ingleside–Not ranked yet
- The Blythes Are QuotedThe Blythes Are Quoted–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 290 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 66% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Children’s books average of 7.9. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 31 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 259 | 89% |
Frequently asked
What age is Anne of Avonlea for?
Anne of Avonlea sits on the Children shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 5–10. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 266 pages — longer than 66% of the ranked books in Children’s books.
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