Description: In this sequel to "The Mother-Daughter Book Club," the moms have invited Becca Chadwick and her mother to join the club--and their daughters are devastated. Meanwhile, Jess finds out that her family may lose Half Moon Farm. Just when it seems like things can't get any worse, the book club comes to the rescue.

Children's Literature Review: The Anne of the title is Anne of Green Gables, and in this sequel to The Mother-Daughter Book Club, the girls and their mothers use Anne Shirley's trials and tribulations as a reference point for their own year of challenges and growth. Megan must wrestle with conflicting loyalties when her former friend, popular "queen bee" Becca, is invited to join the group. Cassidy is determined not to like her widowed mother's first-ever boyfriend, distinctly unexciting accountant Stanley Kinkaid. Emma is the victim of Becca's scheming when they are forced to work together on the school newspaper. And Jess and her family, staggering under an unexpected, crippling tax burden, face the loss of their beloved Half-Moon Farm--unless the Mother-Daughter Book Club can work together to save it, of course. The alternating chapters, each told from a different girl's point of view, make for some initial confusion, as the reader needs to sort out not only the four mother-daughter pairs, but the attendant sibl...

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