Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
By: Kate Douglas Wiggin
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781780943503
Subjects: Aunts; Juvenile fiction; General; American; LITERARY CRITICISM; Classics; JUVENILE FICTION; City and town life
Description: A classic and delightful children's novel that tells the story of young Rebecca Rowena Randall, the mischief she gets into and the difference she makes to the lives of those around her. Often compared to L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and published four years afterwards, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm introduces us to a charming ten-year-old heroine who changes the lives of all those she touches. Set in Riverboro, Maine, this quintessentially American story is a remarkable depiction of rural life in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. We first meet Rebecca when s.
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Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Contents; foreword; chapter one: 'we are seven'; chapter two: rebecca's relations; chapter three: a difference in hearts; chapter four: rebecca's point of view; chapter five: wisdom's ways; chapter six: sunshine in a shady place; chapter seven: riverboro secrets; chapter eight: color of rose; chapter nine: ashes of roses; chapter ten: rainbow bridges; chapter eleven: 'the stirring of the powers'; chapter twelve: 'see the pale martyr'; chapter thirteen: snow-white; rose-red; chapter fourteen: mr. aladdin; chapter fifteen: the banquet lamp; chapter sixteen: seasons of growth.; title: Chapter seventeen: gray days and goldchapter eighteen: rebecca represents the family; chapter nineteen: deacon israel's successor; chapter twenty: a change of heart; chapter twenty-one: the skyline widens; chapter twenty-two: clover blossoms and sunflowers; chapter twenty-three: the hill difficulty; chapter twenty-four: aladdin rubs his lamp; chapter twenty-five: roses of joy; chapter twenty-six: 'over the teacups'; chapter twenty-seven: 'the vision splendid'; chapter twenty-eight: 'th' inevitable yoke'; chapter twenty-nine: mother and daughter; chapter thirty: goodbye, sunnybrook.; title: Chapter thirty-one: aunt miranda's apologybiographical note; Copyright; Advertisements.