Growing up, it turns out, is the greatest predicament Anne Shirley has ever faced. At sixteen, Anne steps into Avonlea’s classroom as its new schoolteacher — determined, responsible, and ready to give back to the town that shaped her. But life has its own curriculum. Between meddling in a friend’s thwarted romance, mothering two new orphans at Green Gables, and navigating the joys and heartbreaks of her students, Anne begins to discover that adulthood is far messier, far richer, and far more complicated than any book ever warned her.