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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 writng! All the same, this is the first step in Emily's climb to success. Once in town, Emily's activities set the Shrewsbury gossips ...

A fourteen-year-old orphan spins irresistible tales for both young and old in the town of Carlisle on Prince Edward Island.

Years after Anne, then an eleven-year-old orphan, was sent to live on a Prince Edward Island farm, her friendship with Diana is as strong as ever, but her life is about to change in other ways.