Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery

Rating: 5.0

What it's about:
Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside--and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty--and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. As Anne learns Summerside's strangest secrets, winning the support of the prickly Pringles becomes only the first of her delicious triumphs.
-taken from Barnes&Noble.com

My thoughts:
The Anne of Green Gables series is rare in that it is beautifully consistent. Anne changes throughout the series as she ages but she still stays "Anne with an e". She doesn't lose that special something that first attracts the reader to her and makes her the person that she is. In Anne of Windy Poplars we see Anne off to teach for three years away from Green Gables and away from Gilbert, her fiance. This is sort of a turning point in the series. This is the first book that Anne seems like an adult with not so much of the precocious child inside. This book divides the schoolgirl Anne in the previous books from the married woman of the books that follow.