Emily of New Moon

Emily of New Moon
Book information
Author	Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publication date	1923
Published by	Frederick A. Stokes
Publication order
Previous	None
Next	Emily Climbs

Emily of New Moon is the first book in the Emily trilogy by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It is about the life of Emily Byrd Starr, a young girl who is sent to live with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura and cousin Jimmy at New Moon after her father dies when she is ten, and she is left an orphan.

Dedication

to
Mr George Boyd MacMillan
Alloa, Scotland
in recognition of a long and stimulating friendship

Book description

Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely—until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding her head high and using her quick wit. Things begin to change when she makes friends, with Teddy, who does marvelous drawings; with Perry, who's sailed all over the world with his father yet has never been to school; and above all, with Ilse, a tomboy with a blazing temper. Amazingly, Emily finds New Moon beautiful and fascinating. With new friends and adventures, Emily might someday think of herself as Emily of New Moon.

Plot

Chapters

1. The House in the Hollow
2. A Watch in the Night
3. A Hop Out of Kin
4. A Family Conclave
5. Diamond Cut Diamond
6. New Moon
7. The Book of Yesterday
8. Trial by Fire
9. A Special Providence
10. Growing Pains
11. Ilse
12. The Tansy Patch
13. A Daughter of Eve
14. Fancy Fed
15. Various Tragedies
16. Check for Miss Brownell
17. Living Epistles
18. Father Cassidy
19. Friends Again
20. By Aerial Post
21. "Romantic But Not Comfortable"
22. Wyther Grange
23. Deals with Ghosts
24. A Different Kind of Happiness
25. "She Couldn't Have Done It"
26. On the Bay Shore
27. The Vow of Emily
28. A Weaver of Dreams
29. Sacrilege
30. When the Curtain Lifted
31. Emily's Great Moment

Gallery

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