Emily Climbs Published by Starfire Also in this series: Emily of New Moon , Emily's Quest
by L.M. Montgomery
Series: Emily #2
on July 1, 1925
Genres: Fiction, Classics, YA, Children's, Historical, Small Town & Rural
Pages: 325
Source: Purchased
Format: Paperback
Reading Challenges: Beat the Backlist 2020, Summer 2020 Reading Assignment
Also by this author: Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon , The Golden Road , Emily's Quest, The Blue Castle, Pat of Silver Bush , Mistress Pat , A Tangled Web, Magic for Marigold, Jane of Lantern Hill, Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939
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ISBN: 0553262149
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Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if she promises to stop writing! All the same, this is the first step in Emily's climb to success. Once in town, Emily's activities set the Shrewsbury gossips buzzing. But Emily and her friends are confident -- Ilse's a born actress, Teddy's set to be a great artist, and roguish Perry has the makings of a brilliant lawyer. When Emily has her poems published and writes for the town newspaper, success seems to be on its way -- and with it the first whispers of romance. Then Emily is offered a fabulous opportunity, and she must decide if she wants to change her life forever.
I forgot how much I love this entire series.
When people think of L.M. Montgomery, they think of Anne of Green Gables. But, Emily is, arguably, Montgomery’s best heroine. She starts out a little girl lost and blossoms throughout the entire series.
But, I think what I love most is the character growth of those that Emily’s life touches. Her aunts, uncles, friends, teachers… Even those who seem beyond any little bit of sympathy in the beginning, turn out to be loyal to Emily in the end.
Emily Climbs is the story of Emily’s high school years, away from New Moon. She really does grow up a lot in the three years she’s gone. And she goes through some exceedingly funny scrapes!
I really love this series–and I’m wishing I’d started the rereading sooner.
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About L.M. Montgomery
The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911 in Prince Edward Island. Her three children were born at Leaskdale, and she wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the Macdonald family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926.
Maud died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
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