Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks.(br /)They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwantedparcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada.(br /)But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there . . . | Oxford Bookworms Library New Edition: Level 2 (700 headwords) Anne of Green Gables by Jennifer Bassett, Paperback | Indigo Chapters