The Emily Trilogy includes the 3 full-length novels featuring Emily Byrd Starr.A spirited, imaginative orphan with a fierce devotion to truth and beauty, Emily grows up on the austere yet enchanting Prince Edward Island, where her gift for writing becomes both her refuge and her calling. Across these three novels, readers follow Emily's journey from a lonely childhood at New Moon Farm to her determined pursuit of authorship, navigating family expectations, deep fri...

Emily of New Moon is the first in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery about an orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island. It is similar to the author's Anne of Green Gables series. It was first published in 1923.

Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely—until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding her head high and using her quick wit. Things begin to change when she makes friends: with Teddy, who does marvelous drawings; with Perry, who's sailed all over the world with his father ye...