A Girl of the Limberlost

Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables by mistake and refuses to leave quietly. The complete novel follows her from eleven to sixteen, through school rivalries, first friendships and the slow burn with Gilbert Blythe.

L. M. Montgomery

The four March sisters grow up together while their father is away at war, and Jo turns down the boy next door. Complete text of the novel that made ordinary girlhood worth writing about.

Louisa May Alcott

A seventeen year old orphan is sent to college by an anonymous benefactor and writes him letters he never answers. An epistolary romance that keeps its love story hidden in plain sight until the last page.

Jean Webster

Two teenagers from feuding families fall in love in a single night and lose everything within four days. The complete play, and the oldest teen romance still being retold today.

William Shakespeare

Anne at sixteen, teaching at the Avonlea school and still sparring with Gilbert Blythe. The sequel picks up where Green Gables ends and lets the romance move a step closer.

L. M. Montgomery