Summary: There are too many children at home and not enough money to care for them all. So Rebecca must leave her beloved Sunnybrook Farm to live with two aunts she barely knows.

A sweet book that is reminiscent of Anne of Green Gables. I really liked Rebecca and found her endearing. A good read for young girls. ( )

I feel like I should be somehow ashamed now, in the age of modernity, to have loved 'girlhood classics' like this. But instead, it makes me sad, for our society. I'm never giving up my computer, but if only I could grow up and find myself in the world of Sunnybrook Farm/Louisa May Alcott/Betsy Tacy. They seemed to know how to live well, back then, and how to appreciate what they had, and the people who were close to them. ( )

This story reminded me of others that are similar - Pollyanna, Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon - all books about young girls, thrust upon adults who aren't sure they want to care for them. Rebecca is interesting because she isn't particularly smart or cute or good - but she is alive and she is attractive in some indefinable way to those around her. I enjoyed hearing Rebecca's adventures and enjoyed they way the story ended. ( )

When Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm came out in 1903, it was very popular. At the time families spent much of the time reading together, the introduction in this penguin classics edition tells us. One hundred years later, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm still has an appeal and has elements that make it a book families can still enjoy reading together. Kids and the young at heart will identify Rebecca's childhood experiences, from having a hard time living up to adult's expectations and being carried away by imagination. Adults will find Rebecca's antics and the narrator's ironic tone amusing. The novel follows Rebecca being entrusted to her aunts at age ten to her graduation from high school at seventeen. For the time period , Wiggins left the ending rather open ended. Rebecca has career options after school. She also has the interest of an older, wealthy man, which contemporary audiences might find creepy as he has been interested in her since her childhood. The open ending left 1903's audience hungry for a sequel. However, Rebecca's futures may add to discussability. ( )