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Loading... Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, No. 7) (original 1919; edition 1992)by L.M. Montgomery
Work InformationRainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery (1919)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Setting description, character development, plot all work together to create a great story! This one has them all! At first I thought this book, #7 of the series, was a little slow, but it wasn't long before I was drawn into this one, like all the previous ones, and couldn't put it down. Such great examples Montgomery uses to teach so many lessons! The 7th Anne of Green Gables book takes place one year after the previous book. Anne rarely appears and strangely enough Rainbow Valley was much more prominent in the previous book. This book has an overreaching story arc of the family in the manse; a minister and his four children. The children are the bane of the town and everyone including them thinks the minister needs a wife to "bring up" the children. Of course, I enjoyed the book but missed Anne being prominent. She would have been perfect to matchmaker as she's done in previous volumes but sadly she doesn't get involved. I did really enjoy the manse children, Mary Vance, and the youngish old maid sisters. Anne's children were best friends of the manse children and played a strong role in the novel but again it was the manse children getting into all the scrapes. Enjoyable but only a so-so entry in the series. This was a thrift find and I am glad for that 'cause it is not really an "Anne" book at all, as I now understand from reading reviews. Many props to those who persevered long enough to even know what the story was about. I couldn't get past the first little chapter with Susan, the Blythe's maid, calling Anne "Mrs. Dr. Dear." I remember now why I always said the early Megan Follows movies are all one really needs. I enjoyed the first two books well enough, but after that the books introduce too many horrible children and the movies give us too much realism. I could keep the volumn for my "little book" collection, but the funnest thing about this thrift find was seeing it has a price sticker from the store I worked at until yesterday. I;m pretty sure the remainder of the series is still on the shelf, and I suppose I'll take this in (don't even need the trade credit!) It's a pretty little copy and with a gentle spine-cleaning it could still serve well as part of a "look at," set. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: The seventh book in the acclaimed Anne of Green Gables series, Rainbow Valley recounts Anne Shirley's life as a mother to a growing brood of children. When a Presbyterian minister moves in next door, the two families experience some challenges when they begin to interact. Will the boisterous Blythe children be able to make nice? Read Rainbow Valley to find out. .No library descriptions found.
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