{"id":45783,"date":"2025-12-05T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45783"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:49:07","slug":"review-of-dan-in-green-gables-by-rey-terciero-and-claudia-aguirre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45783","title":{"rendered":"Review of Dan in Green Gables, by Rey Terciero and Claudia Aguirre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dan in Green Gables<\/p>\n

A Modern Reimagining of <\/em>Anne of Green Gables<\/p>\n

by Rey Terciero and Claudia Aguirre<\/p>\n

Penguin Workshop, 2025. 252 pages.
\nReview written October 9, 2025, from a library book.
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

You know I had to read this book because of what an L. M. Montgomery<\/a> and Anne of Green Gables<\/a><\/em> fan I am!<\/p>\n

This is not a retelling of Anne of Green Gables<\/em> – it didn’t have very many parallel incidents or try to stick to the storyline (which is honestly pretty episodic, anyway). But the set-up parallels Anne’s situation:<\/p>\n

Red-haired and freckled, 15-year-old Dan has been moving from place to place with his mother all his life. One day without warning, she takes him to the Tennessee home – complete with green gables – of his dead father’s mother and father – his Mawmaw and Pawpaw. Mawmaw is warm and welcoming, but his grandfather is immediately put off by Dan’s obvious queerness.<\/p>\n

When his mother leaves without warning the next morning before Dan wakes up – Dan has to find his place there. Like Anne, he asks a lot of questions at church. Like Anne, his flamboyant presence at school makes a stir. Like Anne, Dan is rather dramatic in expressing himself. Though the details for all those things are quite different with a queer kid in 1995 small-town Tennessee instead of an orphan girl in 1800s small-town Prince Edward Island.<\/p>\n

But like Anne, the beauty of the story comes in watching Dan settle in, make friends, find a home, and win the love of his two elderly caretakers – even the cantankerous one.<\/p>\n

This is a graphic novel, so it’s a quick read – but packs a heart-warming punch.<\/p>\n

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Dan in Green Gables A Modern Reimagining of Anne of Green Gables by Rey Terciero and Claudia Aguirre Penguin Workshop, 2025. 252 pages. Review written October 9, 2025, from a library book. Starred Review You know I had to read this book because of what an L. M. Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables fan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,37,42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary","category-graphic-novel","category-starred-review","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45981,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783\/revisions\/45981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}