Emily of New Moon
Lucy Maud Montgomery
(Independently published, Feb. 22, 2020)
Differentiated book• It has a historical context with research of the time-Orphaned after her father's death, her mother's family members gather to decide what to do with little Emily, daughter of Juliet Murray, the little one of the Murray and family misfortune after she escaped to marry Douglas Starr Emily's father. Finally the relatives will decide that Emily goes to live with her aunt Elizabeth, her aunt Laura and cousin Jimmy, to the farm of New Moon, in Prince Edward Island, the house where her mother grew up. There the temperamental and rebellious Emily will become friends with Ilse Burnley, the daughter of Dr. Burnley, ungainly, although beautiful and with a fiery and temperamental character like that of Emily herself, Perry Miller, a boy hired by Aunt Elizabeth to help on the farm, which comes from one of the poorest areas of the city.Teddy Kent, a shy and handsome boy who lives with his mother whom he loves deeply despite Mrs. Kent's obvious emotional imbalance. The four children have deep-rooted talents that will appear in this first book and will eventually develop in the following. Emily loves to write, Ilse is an eloquent actress, Teddy a talented painter and draftsman and Perry has all the qualities to be a great politician.Likewise, the four have problems with their closest relatives, Emily is not able to understand her aunt Elizabeth who does not understand her need to write, Teddy must deal with the horrible jealousy that her mother feels for anything he wants, since Be it your friends, your drawings or your pets, Ilse is completely ignored by her father, not knowing that the guilt comes from her mother's death and a horrible secret that everyone keeps and Perry has to deal with her aunt Tom's greed, who makes him swear that he will marry Emily, in order to attend school.