The classic story of the March family whose 4 daughters are growing up in New England in the mid-1800s. There are numerous sequels, for example, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Annotation. Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during...

The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 12-year-old girls understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put an unthinkable tragedy behind him; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is...

The citizens of Cape Light are getting ready to deck the halls in their beautiful seaside hamlet for a Christmas to remember. But not everyone is having an easy time of it. Stricken with pneumonia, the curmudgeonly Lillian Warwick has been confined to her bed for the foreseeable future. Cared for by her daughters Emily and Jessica, she lets her thoughts drift back to 1955, to the magical time when she first met Oliver Warwick, the dashing man who...

The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.

Finding herself pulled in every direction with no room for her own dreams and goals, Cape Light mayor Emily Warwick struggles to balance town conflicts, the local election, and a family feud between her mother and sister.

Louisa May Alcott's endearing Little Women is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about the four March sisters. Set in the US Civil War era and shortly after, the timeless classic has Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy enduring sibling rivalry, and seeking friendship, love, and a purpose in life. Transcending gender, genre, and class, Little Women is one of the earliest reality-based young adult novels.

Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.