Overview Talkative, 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. But they were expecting Rebecca's quiet, hard-working older sister instead. Can the bright-eyed and talkative girl win them overespecially her strict, rule-bound Aunt Miranda? Just as Rebecca's grand spirit charms everyone in the story, it will captivate readers, too.