![]() ![]() And those things are precisely the thing of which a good story is made. Though she has good intentions, Rebecca lives in a world of her own and that means doing things of which adults will not always approve. Perhaps the most utterly winning thing about Rebecca, however, is not what she does right, but what she does wrong. And, indeed, within a short time she does exactly that–only stern Aunt Miranda seems immune to her niece’s charms. With a glib tongue, a soaring imagination, and a warm heart, Rebecca Randall seems destined to win the love of everyone she meets. ![]() Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a charming, lighthearted read featuring a protagonist with a spirit akin to Anne Shirley’s. Can Rebecca bring light and life back to the Riverboro house? Review But Aunt Miranda is severe and strict, and completely unready to cope with the imaginative child who has just landed on her doorstep. Someone, after all, needs to gain an education so that her mother can lift the mortgage from their farm and raise the six other children. Rebecca Randall arrives to live with her aunts Miranda and Jane in Riverboro, expecting that they will “be the making of her”. ![]()
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