People

Pye, Anthony

Pye, Mrs. George

Pye, Gertie

Pye, John Andrew

Pye, Joshua

Pye, Josie

Pye, Roger

Places

Mr. Teddy Phillips

Mr. Phillips is the Avonlea schoolmaster when Anne Shirley starts there several months after coming to Avonlea. He says Anne's spelling is disgraceful and embarrassed her by holding up her slate for everyone to see on the first day of school. His uncle is a trustee of the Avonlea school. His first name finally gets mentioned when Matthew thinks highly of him when Mr. Phillips praises Anne as his smartest scholar. Anne guesses that because Prissy Andrews's family is a Grit that Mr. Phillips has to be one, too. Mr. Phillips leaves the Avonlea school after Anne's first year. In Anne's opinion, he made a beautiful farewell speech that began, "The time has come for us to part."
AoGG:Chapters 15-21, 32
AoA:Chapter 4

Anthony Pye

He starts going to the Avonlea school when Anne begins teaching, and Rachel Lynde warns Anne that she should expect trouble because Anthony is coming to the school. On Anne's first day of teaching the Avonlea sch ool, she found Anthony "[S]itting by himself at a corner desk...He had a dark, sullen little face, and was staring at Anne with a hostile expression in his black eyes."
AoA:Chapters 1, 5, 7-8, 10

Mrs. George Pye

She begins to take care of "her husband's orphan nephew, Anthony Pye.
AoA:Chapter 1

Gertie Pye

She put her milk bottle in Diana's place in the brook near the Avonlea school. It caused Diana to stop speaking with her. Diana had to sit with her when Anne decided to quit going to school after getting punished for coming in late after dinner one day shortly after she broke the slate over Gilbert's head. Gertie squeaks her pencil all the time. She makes a motion at the A.V.I.S. meeting that Jane Andrews be appointed chairman of the committee to handle the re-shingling and painting of the Avonlea hall.
AoGG:Chapters 15-18, 25
AoA:Chapter 6

father Roger was ready to pick up the paint for painting the Avonlea hall, the Improvers told John Andrew to tell his father to get paint number, 147, which was the green paint they desired, but Roger Pye insists that he was told 157 which was a hideous blue color.
AoA:Chapter 9

Joshua Pye

When the A.V.I.S. decides to renovate the Avonlea hall, Joshua Pye is contracted to shingle and paint the hall. The A.V.I.S. only gave the contract to Joshua Pye because all the Pye families would not give a cent until it was agreed that Joshua would renovate the hall. When he did paint the hall, he painted it a deep, brilliant blue instead of green which made it very hideously looking.
AoA:Chapter 9

Josie Pye

The first mention of Josie is that she cheated by looking in the book when having to do spelling at the Avonlea school. Mr. Phillips did not catch her because he was looking at Prissy Andrews. She dared Jane Andrews "to hop on her left leg around the [Barry] garden" without using her right foot or without stopping. Jane was unsuccessful at the dare. She also did not speak to Julia Bell for three months after the Avonlea concert. She took first prize for knitted lace at the Exhibition in Charlottetown. She was part of t he Queen's class.
AoGG:Chapters 15, 23-27, 29-37

Roger Pye

When the A.V.I.S. gets ready to paint the hall, Roger Pye goes into town to buy the paint.
AoA:Chapter 9

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