The Golden Road
1913
What if children actually published a magazine? Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Prince Edward Island and convinces her cousins and friends to create "Our Magazine." The children write Personals, Fashion Notes, an etiquette column, and stories about their small town. The magazine becomes the most entertaining publication anyone in town has ever read. Montgomery writes with sharp humor and genuine tenderness about children who are fully themselves: scheming, competitive, loyal, and desperately creative. But beneath the warmth lies a gentle heartbreak. These are the last years before growing up, and everyone knows it. The Story Girl will leave soon. The golden road of youth has an ending. This is for readers who loved Anne of Green Gables, who believe children deserve stories written about them with full intelligence, who understand that nostalgia can hurt even as it heals.
