Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

by Kate Wiggin

Overview

When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall leaves Sunnybrook Farm to go and live with her aunts, Miranda and Jane, in Riverboro neither she nor her aunts know quite what to expect. And with Rebecca around it's usually the unexpected that happens anyway. In fact it is this gift for the unexpected that means that life is never quite the same again for anyone with whom she comes into contact.

This classic story of a young girl growing up in the American state of Maine at the end of the l9th century follows Rebecca's life, education and escapades through the next seven years until the day, as the new mistress of her aunts' old brick house, she begins her adult life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141936833
Publisher:	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication date:	08/25/1994
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	9 - 11 Years

About the Author

Kate Douglas Wiggin spent her life dedicated to children's welfare. She headed the first free kindergarten in California, in the slums of San Francisco, and established a kindergarten teachers' training school with her sister. Her writing career, which began as a means of raising money for her school, spanned four decades. After the death of her first husband in 1889, she relocated back to Maine, where her summer home in Hollis is now the home to the town's Salmon Falls Library.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
1.	"We are Seven"	1
2.	Rebecca's Relations	18
3.	A Difference in Hearts	25
4.	Rebecca's Point of view	35
5.	Wisdom's Ways	41
6.	Sunshine in a Shady Place	53
7.	Riverboro Secrets	62
8.	Color of Rose	71
9.	Ashes of Roses	77
10.	Rainbow Bridges	85
11.	"The Stirring of the Powers"	93
12.	"See the Pale Martyr"	101
13.	Snow-White; Rose-Red	114
14.	Mr. Aladdin	121
15.	The Banquet Lamp	130
16.	Seasons of Growth	139
17.	Gray Days and Gold	150
18.	Rebecca Represents the Family	158
19.	Deacon Israel's Successor	167
20.	A Change of Heart	176
21.	The Sky Line Widens	185
22.	Clover Blossoms and Sunflowers	196
23.	The Hill Difficulty	209
24.	Aladdin Rubs His Lamp	216
25.	Roses of Joy	225
26.	"Over the Teacups"	237
27.	"The Vision Splendid"	246
28.	"Th' Inevitable Yoke"	255
29.	Mother and Daughter	266
30.	Good-By, Sunnybrook!	274
31.	Aunt Miranda's Apology	281
	About Kate Douglas Wiggin	287

Editorial Reviews

Another title celebrating a century marker, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin, appears with new illustrations by Barbara McClintock. Her signature artwork with its period details, which appears as full-color plates throughout, seems particularly well suited to this cheery heroine. The illustrations impart a cozy, familiar feel to a long-ago world, and reveals a lively, generous spirit in the heroine who leaves her home to live with her two elderly aunts. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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