KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

Deanna (RTL) Mcfadden; Jamel (ILT) Akib; Kate Douglas Smith WigginTalkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up. An abridged version of Kate Douglas Wiggin''s classic story of talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca''s adventures after she leaves her home at Sunnybrook Farm to go live in town with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental. Eleven-year-old Rebecca Randall is quite a handfuland now shes leaving her beloved Sunnybrook Farm to live with her well-to-do elderly aunts and get an education. But they were expecting Rebeccas quiet, hard-working older sister instead. Can the bright-eyed and talkative girl win them overespecially her strict, rule-bound Aunt Miranda? Just as Rebeccas grand spirit charms everyone in the story, it will captivate readers, too.

A classic and delightful childrens 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. Montgomerys 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 she is on her way to live with her spinster aunts, Miranda and Jane. She has just left behind her the beloved home she grew up in, Sunnybrook Farm, along with her widowed mother and six siblings. Due to the financial straits her family have found themselves in, it has been deemed best that her aunts take her in and look after her under their own roof. A naturally cheerful and imaginative little girl, Rebecca soon forms a close bond with her Aunt Jane who teaches her to sew, cook and look after the house. However there remains a shadow over Rebeccas happiness: the fact that she has never quite won over her Aunt Mirandas affections. But slowly Rebecca is growing up into a mature and thoughtful young lady. And when her mother falls ill and Rebecca is forced to look after her old farmstead home as well as her ailing mother, it may just be that Miranda has grown fond of her niece after all.

Katharine «Kitty» Schuyler es una joven americana de diecinueve años que desembarca en Inglaterra junto a su anciana tía Celia para recorrer la ruta de las más importantes ciudades catedralicias. Paseando entre vetustos montones de piedras y ciudades repletas de historia, Kitty pronto vislumbra un atractivo añadido al paisaje arquitectónico: el joven Jack Copley, americano como ella, que está realizando el mismo recorrido turístico. En el momento del fortuito encuentro resulta evidente la mutua atracción existente entre los jóvenes, y así da comienzo una particular persecución del amor en la que Jack no solo cortejará a Kitty, sino que tendrá que ganarse la atención de su cegata tía, que no parece advertir su presencia a pesar de encontrárselo por todas partes durante el «asedio».