Dear Reader,

I am so incredibly pleased and proud to share Mariko Tamaki’s Anne of Greenville with you! For the debut from my new studio, I wanted to take a beloved classic—Anne of Green Gables—and update it for the modern reader. Anne Shirley has always been one of my favorite heroines of all time—spunky, eccentric, warm, kind, and over-the-top—and Mariko’s adaptation brings us an Anne completely of the moment but with the same lovable, garrulous, outsize personality that has endeared her to our hearts forever.

Anne has two moms, a best friend named Berry, and an irrepressible urge to shake things up in this smallest of small towns that she finds herself in. Her story made me laugh out loud and shed a happy tear or two as Anne battles closed-mindedness and finds true love.

This joyous, diverse, feel-good story inspired by a beloved classic is the epitome of what Melissa de la Cruz Studio hopes to bring to the publishing and entertainment worlds.

I hope Anne of Greenville roller-skates into your heart with a crash as it did mine.

Melissa de la Cruz

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Copyright

Text copyright © 2022 by Disney Enterprises, Inc.

All rights reserved. Published by Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. For information address Hyperion, 77 West 66th Street, New York, New York 10023.

First Edition, October 2022

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tamaki, Mariko, author. • Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874–1942.
Anne of Green Gables.
Title: Anne of Greenville / by Mariko Tamaki.
Description: First edition. • Los Angeles ; New York : MDLC Studio, 2022.
• Audience: Ages 14–18. • Audience: Grades 10–12. • Summary: In this contemporary
retelling of Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, a queer, half-Japanese disco
superfan, moves to a town that seems too small for her big personality and where
she becomes embroiled in a series of dramatic and unfortunate events.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021050338 • ISBN 9781368078405 (hardcover)
• ISBN 9781368083379 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Bullying—Fiction. • Lesbians—Fiction. • Racially mixed people—Fiction.
• Adoption—Fiction. • City and town life—Fiction. • High schools—Fiction.
• Schools—Fiction. • LCGFT: Novels.
Classification: LCC PZ7.T1587 An 2022 • DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021050338

Dedication

For all the kindred spirits out there

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

This story explores experiences relating to racism and homophobia and includes some offensive language that may be triggering for readers. If these topics are sensitive for you, please read with care.

ONE

Technically a story starts wherever you want it to start.

When you start writing it down, that could be the start of the story. Or maybe the story started before you started writing it down, but then the story was so good you thought. . .

This is really good; I should write this down.