Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - The Original Classic Edition

from t1bclasslibrary

Rebecca is taken in by her aunts who despair to raise this very bright but wild child. Everyone is wooed by Rebecca's spirit, excitement, and vigor. She takes up projects with excitement and abandon that affects all those around her, especially her best friend Emma Jane. Though Rebecca finds hers...

from AnnieHidalgo

I feel like I should be somehow ashamed now, in the age of modernity, to have loved 'girlhood classics' like this. But instead, it makes me sad, for our society. I'm never giving up my computer, but if only I could grow up and find myself in the world of Sunnybrook Farm/Louisa May Alcott/Betsy Ta...

from tjsjohanna

This story reminded me of others that are similar - Pollyanna, Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon - all books about young girls, thrust upon adults who aren't sure they want to care for them. Rebecca is interesting because she isn't particularly smart or cute or good - but she is alive and s...

from TerriS

This is just an adorable book about a sweet, outgoing, intelligent girl with a wonderful optimistic view of life and how she touches the lives of those she comes in contact with. Yes, it's very similar to Anne of Green Gables, Pollyanna, and Heidi. But if you love those girls, you'll also love Re...

from BookConcierge

Rebecca Randall is the young girl at the center of this classic coming-of-age novel. Living on the idyllic Sunnybrook Farm with her six siblings and her widowed mother, she is sent at age nine to live with her two elderly aunts in Riverboro, Maine. In exchange for her help they will provide room ...