Little Women

First published in 1886, "Jo's Boys", is considered the final book in the unofficial "Little Women" trilogy by author Louisa May Alcott. "Jo's Boys" is chiefly concerned with the lives of the Plumfield boys, who were introduced in Alcott's "Little Men". "Jo's Boys", which takes place ten years after the events of "Little Men", is a classic coming of age story for all of the characters and an entertaining glimpse into the different paths their lives...

Jo March, now married to Professor Bhaer, works together with her husband at Plumfield School, a sort of foster home where the couple hosts the children in their care. Some of them are "difficult," but they find in Jo and the professor two teachers willing to the hard work of dosing, differently for each, commitments and goals. The integration of study and work, the belief that goodness is worth more than strength, and that if a boy makes a mistake...

Little Women (Part 1): Four sisters and their mother, whom they call Marmee, live in a new neighborhood (loosely based on Concord) in Massachusetts in genteel poverty. Having lost all his money, their father is serving as a chaplain for the Union Army in the American Civil War, far from home. The mother and daughters face their first Christmas without him. When Marmee asks her daughters to give their Christmas breakfast away to an impoverished family,...