Student Book Review:


Emily of New Moon

by: L.M Montgomery


Review done by:

 Caitlin Carney
Grade 7
Van Antwerp Middle School
Niskayuna, NY

A wonderful book I read this year was Emily of New Moon by L.M Montgomery. This novel was 361pages, and definitely worth reading. If
you don't like to read than I don't recommend this book to you because It
was a little bit harder reading. This novel was set In the mid 1900's. This
was a great book and i enjoyed It very much. It was an exciting book, but
it was also very sad In the beginning.
This novel was about a little girl named Emily Bryd Starr. In the beginning of the book Emily's father died and the woman who lived with Emily and her father, Ellen Greene was to poor to keep Emily so Ellen
had to send for Emily's dead mothers' relatives who Emily had never met
before. On the day of her fathers' funeral, Emily had decided that she
didn't want to go live with her aunt Ruth who she had just met the day
before. She didn't want to live with her aunt because she didn't like Ruth
very much, she thought she was mean. In fact Emily didn't like any of her aunts or uncles. The only one she liked was her aunt Laura Murray. But, Emily still had to live with one of them. So, they all put their names in a hat and Emily got to pick one. Emily picked her aunt Elizabeth Murray. Emily was not happy about the arrangement at first because she didn't like Elizabeth at all. She thought Elizabeth was too picky about everything. But then she was told that the aunt that she likes, Aunt Laura was going to live with them also. Emily was really happy that her aunt Laura was going to live with them. Aunt Laura was very different from her sister Elizabeth. Laura was always happy and didn't care who Emily was, she loved her anyway. Aunt Elizabeth at first didn't't like Emily very much because she didn't keep the Murray pride. Emily didn't think it was necessary because she didn't think of herself as a Murray. But than Elizabeth relived that Emily didn't want to keep the Murray pride.
One exciting part of this book was when cousin Jimmy Murray told Emily
that there was lost jewel buried somewhere on the Murray farm, called
New Moon. At this part Emily was not sure if Jimmy was telling the truth
but divided to believe him. After he told Emily the story of how the jewel got on the New Moon farm Emily believed him. Emily made it a goal for herself to find the jewel. This part was exciting because right after she heard of the jewel she spent days looking for it, and you couldn't tell if she would find it or not. It was kind of like a mystery.
One part I really enjoyed was, when Emily first met Ilse Burnly. It was the day after Emily had first gone to school. Emily's first was not one she would not like to remember. The instant she walked in she new she would not like school, and she was right. The girls in the class were very mean to her. They made fun of her because she was different. When Emily got home from school she was sure she would never make a new friend and she knew she never wanted to go back to school. But her aunts made her go anyway. When Emily walked in on the second day a girl named Jennie said something mean to her. Then a girl who was not there the day before told Jennie and the other girls to stop making fun of Emily or they would be in a lot of trouble. Surprisingly, the girls listened to her. Later Emily introduced herself, and so did the girl who's name was Ilse. She said that if any of the girls were mean to her Emily could tell her and Ilse would do something. Emily later learned that all the girls were afraid of Ilse, and when she told them something all of the girls listened.
This was one of my favorite parts because this is when Emily starts to be comfortable with New Moon and and all the new people in her life. Before Emily , when she first came to New Moon didn't like anything about New Moon or the people.
This book, Emily of New Moon, is a wonderfully written novel, I couldn't put it down. The characters seem so realistic, and I could understand every the author was saying. This is a book everybody who likes to read harder books should definitely consider reading.
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