Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

A stagecoach rattles along a Maine road with one small passenger inside, and before long she has climbed out to sit on the box beside the driver, holding a pink sunshade and talking without pause. Rebecca Randall is being sent from a mortgaged farm and a houseful of brothers and sisters to her mother's unmarried sisters in the brick house at Riverboro, where Aunt Miranda has agreed to take her in and has no intention of enjoying it.