Her new home offers her another chance at love, as well as attending school, but tensions increase as Maud discovers her stepmother's plans for her, which threaten Maud's future - and her happiness forever.Ī Huffington Post Canada Selection: "Great Books for Kids in Summer 2017" Then again, Maud isn't sure she wants to settle down with a boy - her dreams of being a writer are much more important.īut life changes for Maud when she goes out West to live with her father and his new wife and daughter. If only he weren't a Baptist her Presbyterian grandparents would never approve. Luckily, she has a teacher to believe in her, and good friends to support her, including Nate, the Baptist minister's stepson and the smartest boy in the class. Her grandfather has strong opinions about a woman's place in the world, and they do not include spending good money on college. But living with her grandparents on Prince Edward Island, she worries that this dream will never come true. Montgomery, the author who brought us ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.įourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery - Maud to her friends - has a dream: to go to college and become a writer, just like her idol, Louisa May Alcott. For the first time ever, a young adult novel about the teen years of L.M.
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