Young Adult Montgomery, L. M.: Pat of Silver Bush. v1. 20 Mar 2026

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Pat of Silver Bush is a nostalgic novel focusing on a simpler time, intense devotion to home, domesticity, and the joys and heartbreaks of rural family life.

The story follows Patricia "Pat" Gardiner from age 7 to 18 at her beloved home, Silver Bush Farm on Prince Edward Island. Unlike most other Montgomery heroines, Pat’s defining trait is an intense, almost obsessive desire for her home life to remain exactly as it is. She is a deeply sentimental, home-loving girl who treasures her family and home above all, sometimes with near-obsessive intensity. She struggles against change, but learns to cope with the inevitability of growing up, family departures, and the shifting seasons of life, all while being mentored by the housekeeper, Judy Plum.

(Includes several dust jacket examples.)

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L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) was a celebrated Canadian author best known for her 1908 international bestseller Anne of Green Gables. Raised in rural Prince Edward Island by strict grandparents, she drew on her lonely childhood to create rich, imaginative worlds. A former teacher and journalist, she wrote 20 novels, hundreds of short stories, and poems. Today she is remembered as a central figure in Canadian literature. Her writings explore themes of the creativity and inner life of young women; family and belonging; and connections to the natural world.

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