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.