Hugely popular when it was first published in 1903 and admired by authors fromJack London to Mark Twain this delightful novel introduced a heroine asirrepressib... » 

Hugely popular when it was first published in 1903 and admired by authors fromJack London to Mark Twain this delightful novel introduced a heroine asirrepressible and funloving as Tom Sawyer who would serve as a role model fora century of American girls and women. When ten yearold Rebecca Randall comesto live with flinty aunt Miranda and her sentimental sister Jane in a smalltown in Maine they expect to turn her into a proper young lady. InsteadRebecca will end up changing them. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is as charmingtoday as it was one hundred years ago and is unexpectedly poignant in itsevocation of an America contemplating the choices open to women facing theirfutures in a new era. «