Kate Douglas Wiggin

Despite her impoverished background, Rebecca is an imaginative and charming child, often composing little poems and songs to express her feelings or to amuse her younger brothers and sisters. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding. -- back cover.

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.

Twelve illustrated stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.

Rebecca starts her first day of school at Wareham Acadamey and learns many lessons along the way.

Cereal companies compete to have a little girl in their radio commercials.