Marilla and Matthew want to adopt an orphan boy to help out on the farm. By mistake, they are sent spunky- red. haired Anne instead. At first, it seems that wherever Anne goes, trouble follows. She hits a boy over the head with her slate at school. Then she falls off the neighbor's roof during a game of truth or dare! But as she grows up, all of Avonlea comes to love Anne of Green Gables.