April Gold

by Grace Livingston Hill

A gentle young girl protected by position and wealth, is plunged into the depths of poverty and discovers the joy of self-sufficiency, the rapture of first love. Marilla Reed had everything she could want growing up. She knew that life held only the best for her. -- Then, one tragic day, her father is brought home unconscious. Suddenly Marilla finds her life changed dramatically -- and not for the better! Plunged into poverty, forced to move to a tumbledown cottage on the poor side of town, Marilla and her family must learn a new way of life ... and a new way of survival. But who will protect Marilla from her dangerous new neighbors? Has she lost all hope of finding the happiness -- and the love -- she longs for?

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Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?