Little Women and Me
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic
2.9
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Emily is sick and tired of being a middle sister. So when she gets an assignment to describe what she'd change about a classic novel, Emily pounces on Little Women. After all, if she can't change things in her own family, maybe she can bring a little justice to the March sisters. (Kill off Beth? Have cute Laurie wind up with Amy instead of Jo? What was Louisa May Alcott thinking?!) But when Emily gets mysteriously transported into the 1860s world of the book, she discovers that righting fictional wrongs won't be easy. And after being immersed in a time and place so different from her own, it may be Emily--not the four March sisters--who undergoes the most surprising change of all.
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Author
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Pages
336
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published Date
2013-07-23
ISBN
9781619630338 1619630338
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"What if you could enter the world of your favorite book...and change the outcome? When 14 year old Emily March is asked to write about how she would improve <i>Little Women</i>, she finds herself sucked into the classic novel as a 5th sister. Although alternately bored, horrified and disgusted by their life of 19th century piety and deprivation, Emily quickly realizes that sibling love and rivalry (especially over boys) is not that different in 2010 than it was in 1862. But can she use her 21st century wits to save Beth from an early grave, and Jo from losing the love of her life?<br/><br/>Alcott purists may recoil, but the author's gentle spoofing clearly belies an abiding affection for the story and characters. And what modern day Alcott lover wouldn't chuckle over Emily's reaction to a Marmee lecture: " 'remember that we could never be fatherless-' oh, right she was talking about God again"."
Lesley Williams
