Anne of Avonlea vs Pollyanna: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Orphans, History, Fiction
Anne of Avonlea
“A TALL, SLIM girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.”
The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series.Now Anne is half past sixteen and she's ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She's as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to…
1 film adaptation
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Pollyanna
“Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.”
An abridged version of the tale of orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna, who comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, bringing happiness to her aunt and other members of the community through her philosophy of…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Anne of Avonlea highest: Anne of Avonlea 4.2 · Pollyanna 4.0.
- Anne of Avonlea has the widest readership — 234768 ratings behind its score.
- Pollyanna runs the darker storyline; Anne of Avonlea stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Anne of Avonlea | Pollyanna | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (234768) | 4.0 (92909) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (231) | — |
| Google Books | 4.0 (8) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1139) | 4.5 (293) |
Reception
| Anne of Avonlea | Pollyanna | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 234768 | 92909 |
| Editions | 813 | 552 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 69510 | 30786 |
| Reading it now | 8340 | 1604 |
| Written reviews | 13019 | 3689 |
| Wikipedia attention | 6009 | 10097 |
| Pages | 244 | 146 |