Chronicles of Avonlea

L.M. Montgomery was a prolific Canadian author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of the early 20th century. Montgomery became famous immediately after writing Anne of Green Gables, a classic coming of age story featuring an orphaned girl named Anne Shirley, and its many sequels. Montgomery also wrote The Emily of New Moon novels which were made into a popular television series in the late 1990's.

Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of twelve short stories published in 1912. The stories feature the fictional Canadian village where Anne Shirley worked as a teacher in the novel Anne of Avonlea.