Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Fiction)

This is the second book about Anne Blythe's children. The Blythe's befriend the Meredith children, who are the children of the new minister, Rev John Meredith. There are four children in the Meredith clan, Jerry, Carl, Faith, and Una. One day the children can smell the food from Rainbow Valley, the place where the Blythe children play, and they go to join, and soon become friends. Later, the Meredith children hear noises from their neighbor's barn. They go to investigate and they find a runaway girl named Mary Vance. They help her out, as she is starving, and give her a room in their house. Soon others know about her, and they have to figure out a new home for her. Her abusive 'owner' had died the morning she left and Mary is afraid that she is going to go to another abusive owner, and Una decides to ask Miss Cornelia if she will take Mary. After some consideration she agrees, and Mary is allowed to come over to Rainbow Valley sometimes. The children are always on adventures, such as Walter standing up to a boy who bullied Faith, Faith who helped her father get another man come to his church, and a lot more. Read this book to find out why Rosemary West says no to Rev John Meredith's proposal, and what happens after.

I liked Rainbow Valley a lot, and I would give it four out of five stars. It was full of lots of little adventures. This is probably my second favorite book in the series, because it is similar to the other books in ways, and yet very different in ways. I also like how Anne's children went on many adventures and faced new things, and I like how their childhood was similar yet different than Anne and Gilbert's. I wish Gilbert was more in the book. I also wish there was more of Anne's adulthood adventures in the book rather than other neighbors adventures, but I still liked how there were lots of adventures from the children, and there were more peoples perspectives in the book. One main thing I did not like about this book is that it used a word that we would not use today. Other than that, this book was very good. It had me realize many different perspectives, and how others are affected by decisions that do not involve you. Rainbow Valley can make you feel as if you related to it, and it can make you laugh, feel happy, sad, confused, nervous, surprised eager to read more, and hooked. 

Reveiwed by Claire H., Grade 7