Manga Classics: Anne of Green Gables - Recommendations

• Vol: 1
• 1977

Anne, an imaginative young red-haired girl, is accidentally adopted from an orphanage by a pair of aging siblings who originally wanted a boy to help them work their farm. The happy accident changes everyone's lives for the better.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 18
• 1997

Miss Marilla Cuthbert and Mr. Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt an orphan boy from the asylum as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, what ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please but dissatisfied with her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her long braids of red hair. Being a child of imagination, however, Anne takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 1978

Charlotte has been raised by her father, a former French nobleman, and is now living on a ranch in Quebec, Canada.Although motherless, Charlotte was a happy girl until her 12th birthday, surrounded by a loving father and many friendly animals. On that day, however, a package arrives from her "mother", who was supposedly dead. After Charlotte's father dies, this mother comes to live with her. At the same time, Charlotte meets a strange boy. This is only the beginning of many heartbreaking incidents in the little girl's life, but in the end, her trusting and optimistic nature wins over all hardship and Charlotte is able to regain happiness.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 1998

Follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. Anne discovers the delights and troubles of being a teacher, takes part in the raising of the twins Davy and Dora and organizes the A.V.I.S. (Avonlea Village Improvement Society), which tries to bring improvements to Avonlea with questionable results.

• Vol: 1
• 1990

Orphan Mary Lennox moves from India to the English moorlands to live with a wealthy uncle she's never met. The young girl wanders the grounds of her new home and discovers an abandoned garden that's been locked away for a decade. With the help of a nature-loving local boy, Mary works to bring it back to life. As the seeds begin to open up, so do the hearts of those who come to look upon the mysterious Secret Garden.

• Vol: 1
• 1966

The events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. Based on the famous children's book chronicling the adventures of the carefree girl Heidi in the Swiss Alps and her friendship with a sickly city girl.

• Vol: 1
• 2015

Mountain girl Heidi's heart belongs to the Alm, where she lives with her grandfather and spends her days with goatherd Peter and his flock of goats. When her relative Dete takes her away and places her in a wealthy household to be a companion to a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, Heidi is constantly criticised by the head housekeeper for her unrefined ways. For the sake of her new friend she tries to hold in her overwhelming homesickness, but all Heidi wants is to return to her grandfather where she belongs.

• Vol: 3
• 1986

When cheerful orphan Pollyanna comes to live with her strict Aunt Polly, Pollyanna's unyielding optimism lifts the hearts of everyone around her.

• Vol: 1
• 2015

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of the more colorful characters in literature: Miss Havisham. Dickens set Great Expectations during the time that England was becoming a wealthy world power. Machines were making factories more productive, yet people lived in awful conditions.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 2003