Before Green Gables /
Budge Wilson.
- Toronto : Penguin Canada, c2008.
- 447 p. : ill.
Anne Shirley, born to kind and loving parents, has a difficult early life when she is tragically orphaned as a baby and is soon sent from one foster home to the next. Anne battles to make a life for herself by searching out kindred spirits, finding solace in her books, and dreaming of the day she has a family of her own. Prequel to Anne of Green Gables.