"Everything is changing — or going to change," exclaimed Diana Berry sadly, as she and her best friend Anne Shirley sat in a sunny corner of the old orchard at Green Gables, reviewing the summer vacation.

You are about to start another of the beloved Anne Shirley books, and this one will take you away from some of her friends for a time, as she goes to Redmond College to study to become a teacher. At Redmond the days "actually whizzed away," as Philippa Green, Anne's new friend, put it. But if the days sped by for Anne at college, changes were taking place at Avonlea, too, as she discovered on her visits home. The twins were growing up. Then there was the tragic fate of Ruby Gillis, which saddened Anne's first summer home. Things were changing at Avonlea, as Diana had prophesied.

Then followed in rapid succession Gilbert's proposal and Anne's refusal, the romantic courting of Roy Gardner, Diana's wedding, and finally graduation week at Redmond.

Did Anne marry Roy? Or did she become principal of Summerside High School? Did Philippa marry her Jo? And what happened on the old bench in Hester Gray's gardens one lovely September day? You'll find it all in Anne of the Island!

From the dust jacket of the 1936 Grosset and Dunlap edition