Armed with a big personality and unstoppable creativity, Anne takes her new foster home and town by storm as she makes new friends, experiences first love and finds the one thing she wasn’t looking for – a family. 7,500 first printing. Simultaneous. Illustrations. - (Baker & Taylor)
Anne of Green Gables with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and The Secret Garden on 81st Street, this full-color graphic novel moves Anne Shirley to modern-day West Philadelphia, where where she finds new friends, new rivals, and a new family.
When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert decide to foster a teenage girl for the first time, their lives are changed forever. Their redheaded foster daughter, Anne Shirley, is in search of an exciting life and has decided that West Philly is where she's going to find it. Armed with a big personality and unstoppable creativity, Anne takes her new home by storm as she joins the robotics club, makes new friends in Diana and Gilbert, experiences first love, and turns the ordinary into the extraordinary. But as Anne starts to get comfortable, she discovers one thing she wasn't looking for: a family.
This title will be simultaneously available in hardcover. - (Grand Central Pub)
Ivy Noelle Weir is a writer of comics and prose. She is the co-creator of the Dwayne McDuffie Award-winning graphic novel Archival Quality (Oni Press), the author of The Secret Garden on 81st Street, and her writing has appeared in anthologies such as Princeless: Girls Rock (Action Lab Entertainment) and Dead Beats (A Wave Blue World). She lives in the greater Boston area with her husband and their two tiny, weird dogs.
When not crafting fictional worlds and surfing Pinterest, Myisha Haynes works full-time as a games artist in San Francisco. She earned an MFA in Visual Development at the Academy of Art University and a BA in English at UC Santa Barbara (but is still a pretty questionable speller). She loves fall and winter but is also from California, and therefore has no idea what a real winter looks like. Besides her modern fantasy webcomic, The Substitutes, her work can also be seen in the award-winning Elements Anthology: Fire, Rolled & Told, Power & Magic 2, and Marvel's Gwenpool. - (Grand Central Pub)
Booklist Reviews
In this contemporary graphic adaptation of the popular children's novel Anne of Green Gables, Anne is now a Black tween who is fostered into siblings' Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert's home in West Philly. In this adaptation, Anne's move to the Cuthberts' household gets off to a somewhat challenging start. This causes Marilla to question whether they are equipped, positioned, or suited to parent the spirited and strong-minded teenager well. However, with the help of a therapist, Marilla and Anne work to be more adaptable toward and patient with each other, and over time things turn around. With Marilla fully committed to being more patient and understanding and Matt's strong encouragement and support, the two manage to create something that Anne has longed for: a family. And Anne thrives, developing close friendships, experiencing her first love, and succeeding in school. Weir and Haynes' modern take does a solid job at recasting the classic with updated plot points that will appeal to young readers. Supported by colorful, meaningfully expressive artwork, this graphic novel presents a beloved tale with a fresh perspective. Grades 4-7. Copyright 2022 Booklist Reviews.
