The Anne of Green Gables series is still charming and amusing today. The story of a red-headed orphan girl accidentally adopted by the elderly Cuthberts (brother and sister) who wanted a boy to help on the farm, and the troubles she and her vivid imagination get herself into. The characters are real and truly likeable and never unbelieveably perfect as is the case in many young adult books of the period. Besides being charming and entertaining, the books are a wonderful and accurate portrait of life in a small Canadian town at the start of the 1900s (and during the heartbreak of WWI in the final book, Rilla of Ingleside). I'm always happy to reread this series.