Anya from Green Gables

This is the first book in the series about Anne Shirley. When the red-haired Anne Shirley arrives on Prince Edward Island, she is sure that she has finally found the home she has always dreamed of. Anne is an orphan... who never had a childhood, because both in foster families and in the orphanage, she worked alongside adults; no one ever gave her warmth, and her life until then had been a "graveyard of hopes." But her new foster parents - Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert - are puzzled, as they had requested a boy to help them on their farm in Green Gables. At first, the girl seems strange to them, constantly getting into trouble, but over time, Anne's boundless optimism, rich imagination, and good-naturedness conquer them and the residents of Avonlea. The novels about Anne Shirley are a classic coming-of-age story with its ups and downs, sorrows and joys.