The six children of Anne Blythe (of "Anne of Green Gables" fame) and their four young neighbors of the Manse are just the sort of lovable incorrigibles that keep the town aghast at their mischief while it secretly gloats over their irresistibleness. It is around their adventures and misadventures that the story turns and it is partly through them that two romances are brought to a happy outcome.

Full of splendid wholesomeness, a delectable humor and pure romance, this story, again staged on the author's native Prince Edward Island, tells of the everyday events in a community of simple, kindly people whose lives — sometimes dramatic, sometimes prosaic — are the counterpart of other lives the country over.

From the dust jacket of the 1919 Grosset & Dunlap edition