Cranston Public Library

Home life in New England, with portrayals of girls and women-folk.

While helping their dad run Fred's Fall Color Tours in New England, Jim and Andy think the tourists are pretty silly; then one night the boys experience something which makes them change their minds.

Both boys and girls find a happy, rollicking home at Plumfield, a remarkable school founded by Jo and Father Bhaer.

Diary entries and illustrations evoke a boy's life on a New England farm in the 1800s.

As their summer on Gull Island continues, the four twelve-year-old Callahan girls busy themselves with redecorating the Dorm, dealing with their mean neighbor Sloan, and uncovering a secret about their family's past.

"Told from the perspective of the house, 'The Grand House' tells the story of the families, children, dogs and even a shop that existed within its walls"--

During one year, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, aged nine to thirteen, get to know their neighbors the Lawrences, attend school dances and sleepovers, have first crushes, and grow closer despite their differences.

As the family prepares for Christmas, Beth befriends a beautiful but sickly pony that strays into the March's yard and tries to keep it from being taken to Boston to be sold as a "useless beast."

When ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, her aunts find her to be more of a handful than they bargained for. But even more surprising than the transition of Rebecca into a well-mannered young lady are the effects that Rebecca has on her aunts' humdrum lives.