Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
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.
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780689860010 (0689860013)
Publish date: June 1st 2003
Publisher: Aladdin
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
"Why, mother!" cried Rebecca, clasping her knees with her hands; "why, mother, it's enough joy just to be here in the world on a day like this; to have the chance of seeing, feeling, doing, becoming! When you were seventeen, mother, wasn't it good just to be alive?" Rebecca's mother has recently b...
What a charming, funny and beautiful read, a simple back to basics story , beautiful prose and a feel good read that suprised me and left me with a lovely warm feeling on completing this novel. My 13 years old self would have loved this Novel. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 ...
I think my rating of this book is pretty unfair so take it with a grain of salt. First, it started out so very like one of my favorite books of all time (Anne of Green Gables) that I think the bar was set far too high. Beyond some similarities in plot, time period, and character (I realize that soun...
Let's just lay it out--Miranda is a bitch. Utterly. And reminds me, unfortunately, way too much of someone I once knew (fortunately NOT a relative of mine :-).Very old-fashioned and "sentimental," of course. To a degree tedious at times.Evokes "The Music Man." And Allen grade school in New Orlean...
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