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1) Little women
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Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
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"Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832?1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters?Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March?detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Little Women was an immediate commercial and...
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English
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Six weeks of shopping, taking tea with the most fashionable ladies and dancing with the most handsome gentlemen is what awaits young Catherine Morland when she makes her entree into the leisure society at Bath. But, oh, the thrill of an unexpected invitation from the mysterious Tilney family to stay at their home-a veritable abbey.
5) Crossroads
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
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.
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne and her "straynge band of mysfits" have journeyed from London to America to rescue their friend Jasper, hauled off by bounty hunters. But Jasper is in the clutches of a devious former friend demanding a trade ; the dangerous device Jasper stole from him for the life of the girl Jasper loves. One false move from Jasper and the strange clockwork collar around Mei's neck tightens. And tightens. From the rough streets of...
7) Jo's boys
Author
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Better known for her novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott continued the story of her feisty protagonist Jo in this final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family. Entertaining, surprising, and overall a joy to read, Jo's Boys is nevertheless shaded by a bittersweet tone, for with it Alcott brought her wonderful series to an end. Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A New England inn seems like the picture-perfect place to spend the holidays. But when a snowstorm shuts the roads and keeps them all inside, the guests find themselves worrying that this Christmas may not be exactly what they dreamed of. Molly just needs to keep her head down and finish her latest book, but her writer's block is crippling. The arrival of Marcus, a handsome widower with two young girls, is exactly the distraction she doesn't need....
10) Emily Hudson
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the start of the Civil War, orphaned Emily Hudson must go to live in Newport, Rhode Island with her puritanical uncle, who attempts to marry her off, only to have Emily journey to London with her cousin, William, who soon becomes her controlling patron.
11) The Rathbones
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 370 pages : genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The fifteen-year-old heir of a once-prosperous seafaring dynasty in New England spends her days in a crumbling ancestral mansion where she studies the secrets of Greek history and navigation before embarking on a voyage that reveals her family's haunted history.
13) Little women
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (194 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
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Saddleback Educational Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Silly Mrs. Bennet is "husband hunting" for her five daughters. Heaven knows it isn't easy! Darcy would make a great match for Elizabeth--if it weren't for his false pride and her stubborn prejudice. And the other girls aren't cooperating either. Jane is too shy to show affection, and Lydia has run off with an unsuitable army officer! What's a poor mother to do?
15) Little women
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 205 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An enchanting screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's original novel. As the Civil War rages on, the four sisters of the March family struggle to grow up without the guiding hand of their loving father.