Emily of New Moon is one of three books about Emily Byrd Starr. This book opens with her living with her father in a old kind of ramshackle home. He is dying though she didn’t really know it at the time. Her mother Juliet had died four-five years before and came from the great Murray family. When her father dies, and leaves her an orphan, she is taken in by some of her mother’s family at New Moon farm. At first she rebels, but soon finds that she dearly loves the childhood home of her mother. She lives with Cousin Jimmy, who everybody thinks is not quite right, Aunt Laura she loves, and Aunt Elizabeth that is a formidable person to meet. She makes friends and writes all the time. She knows to keep them from Aunt Elizabeth and continues to write. She goes to visit her Great-Aunt and meets more friends. She solves a great mystery. The book closes with her to start writing in a diary in her room. I rate this book preliminary three stars out of five. It may be rated differently after reading the others in the series.