Dan in Green Gables: A Graphic Novel - A Modern Reimagining of Anne of Green Gables

In this modern reimagining of Despite a life on the road with his free-spirited mother, fifteen-year-old Dan Stewart-Álvarez has always wanted to settle down. He just didn’t think it’d be like this: with his mother abandoning him in rural Tennessee with two strangers--his gentle grandmother and conservative, rough-around-the-edges grandfather. Here, he is forced to adjust to working the farm, entering high school, and hardest yet--reckoning with his queerness in a severe Southern Baptist community. But even as Dan grows closer to his mawmaw, befriends fellow outsiders at school, and tries to make a new life for himself in Green Gables, he has to discover whether he can contend with intolerance and adapt to change without losing himself in the process. From award-winning author Rey Terciero and Eisner Award nominee and illustrator Claudia Aguirre comes a new retelling of< Anne of Green Gables< about unconventional families, queer identity, and finding the meaning of home in the most unlikely of places.

About the author

Rey Terciero; illustrated by Claudia Aguirre

Summary

In this modern reimagining of Anne of Green Gables, effervescent extrovert Dan Stewart-Álvarez is surprised to find home and community in rural Tennessee.

Despite a life on the road with his free-spirited mother, fifteen-year-old Dan Stewart-Álvarez has always wanted to settle down. He just didn’t think it’d be like this: with his mother abandoning him in rural Tennessee with two strangers—his gentle grandmother and conservative, rough-around-the-edges grandfather. Here, he is forced to adjust to working the farm, entering high school, and hardest yet—reckoning with his queerness in a severe Southern Baptist community.

But even as Dan grows closer to his mawmaw, befriends fellow outsiders at school, and tries to make a new life for himself in Green Gables, he has to discover whether he can contend with intolerance and adapt to change without losing himself in the process.

From award-winning author Rey Terciero and Eisner Award nominee and illustrator Claudia Aguirre comes a new retelling of Anne of Green Gables about unconventional families, queer identity, and finding the meaning of home in the most unlikely of places.

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Aguirre, Rey Terciero
• Assisted by: Claudia Aguirre (Illustration)
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2025
• EAN: 9780593385586
• ISBN: 978-0-593-38558-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 210 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Comic strip fiction / graphic novels (Children's / Teenage), YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / LGBTQ+, Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Literary adaptations, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people