Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
In this 1903 children's classic, 10-year-old Rebecca is energetic, high-spirited, and full of mischief. The two aunts who are raising her on a Maine farm try to turn her into a proper young lady - which eventually happens. Adults enjoy the book as well, especially the vivid glimpses of...
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In this 1903 children's classic, 10-year-old Rebecca is energetic, high-spirited, and full of mischief. The two aunts who are raising her on a Maine farm try to turn her into a proper young lady - which eventually happens. Adults enjoy the book as well, especially the vivid glimpses of turn-of-the-century New England and its virtues.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781429040877 (1429040874)
Publish date: October 1st 2009
Publisher: Applewood Books
Pages no: 340
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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