Book Review: The Story Girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1911)

Fourteen-year-old Sara Stanley (called the Story Girl) comes to Carlisle, Prince Edward Island, and along with her cousins and friends, creates a hilarious, fun-packed, colorful, beautiful, sweet summer. The Story Girl is “not beautiful” but “fascinating.” and has a “clear, sweet, far-reaching, bell-like” voice that has the ability to entrance listeners, bring out emotions and…

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The Stolen Jewel

On the top of the hill, the tall, cold tree, Stands proudly, icily, bitterly; Thin and sharp, cracked and burled, Locked, like a prisoner, in a black world. The tree was once a flower, soft, supple, slender, Born with a jewel inside, of love, dreams of splendor; But by the world, the jewel was stolen,…

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