Fifteen years after Anne Shirley's wedding to Gilbert Blythe, this story shifts focus to the Blythe children and their adventures. The arrival of the new minister, John Meredith, a widower who moves to Glen St. Mary with his four wild and mischievous children, introduces new friends into the story. They quickly form a close bond with Anne's youngsters and together they embark on numerous adventures in the idyllic Rainbow Valley hollow.
In an attempt to help the Meredith children become more well-behaved, the Blythe children create a 'Good-Conduct Club'. However, despite their good intentions, the club leads to unintended consequences, causing scandal in the community.
Read & Co. Children's is proudly republishing Rainbow Valley as the seventh volume of Montgomery's matching Anne of Green Gables collection – a beautifully made keepsake edition for the re-reader, complete with a brand-new introductory biography of the author.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942) was a Canadian author whose fiction drew on the landscape of her native Prince Edward Island. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), has sold more than fifty million copies and been translated into thirty-six languages. Throughout her life, she wrote more than twenty novels across several beloved series – the further Anne books, the Emily of New Moon trilogy, the Story Girl books, and the Pat of Silver Bush novels – as well as standalones such as Jane of Lantern Hill. Her work remains among the best-loved in classic children's literature.