Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Anne (with an 'e' of course) starts out as a mistake. The elderly Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had planned on adopting a boy to help Matthew with the chores on their Prince Edward Island farm. What are they to do with the red-haired, high-spirited...

Text and illustrations describe the sights and sounds of nighttime in the country.

James becomes the unwitting source of wild rumors that a Lizard Man has appeared in his quiet rural community. Poor James Arthur is bored to tears. Nothing exciting ever happens in Crabtree County. Well, at least, not since that squash that looked like Abraham Lincoln! Growing desperate, he tries disguising himself as a shrub. With any luck, a bird might land on his head. At the end of a long day spent plastered in leaves, however, he still has nothing...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...

A young girl's favorite spot is Over Back, a place of pools and trees over across the fields back behind the barn, where the wonders of nature wait to be discovered each day.

When a quiet corner of the meadow is made into a historical landmark, Chester Cricket and the other meadow creatures join forces to prevent the eviction of Mr. Budd and his dog.

A girl reflects on Christmas at her grandparents home in the country, with its fresh-cut tree, handmade ornaments, gifts from Santa, and special church services.

"Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents, Jeptha Taylor, who becomes the father of her child. Together, these two young people work to form a family, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than bluegrass music, tobacco fields, and a...