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Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.
Rebecca Randall is one of seven fatherless children, but is full of fun and strange ideas. She leaves her family at Sunnybrook Farm and goes to live with her two aunts in Riverboro.
Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.
But I'm too old and tired to scold and fuss and try to train you , same as I did at first . You've apologized , and we won't say no more about it today , but I expect you to show by extry good conduct how sorry you be !
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her aunts, one stern and one kind, in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine.
Rebecca Randall leaves her family at Sunnybrook Farm and goes to live with her two aunts in Riverboro.
A thrill of delicious excitement ran through Rebecca's frame , from her new shoes up , up to the leghorn cap and down the black braid . She pressed Mr. Cobb's knee ardently and said in a voice choking with tears of joy and astonishment ...
At seventeen, Rebecca inherits her Aunt Miranda's estate and she has high hopes of turning it into a working farm, taking care of her large family, and getting to know railroad executive Adam Ladd even better.
Rebecca is a high-spirited girl going through family hardship, but growing up to take up her responsibilities with grace.
Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.