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Kilmeny of the Orchard
by L.M. Montgomery
This one didn’t live up to the memory I had of reading it as a tween. It was an early book of L.M.M.’s; boy takes over teaching position for sick friend, boy hears beautiful violin playing from an orchard, boy falls rump over teakettle in love with violinist, and is dismayed to find she is a fiercely protected mute girl who has hardly been out of her house since she was small. From then on it is a pitched battle as the hero seeks a way to make Kilmeny whole, and to make her his. In this one the … I don’t want to say racism; perhaps ethnocentricity is a kinder word, or xenophobia… comes out more strongly than in most. It’s a slender book, sweet (as always), and wrapped up a little too neatly (as always) – and without the depth of charm that carries off any faults in the other books.