Jo's Boys
JOIN JO IN TH LAST EPISODE OF THE MARCH FAMILY ADVENTURES. Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, Jo's boys - including wanderer Dan, sailor Emil and musician Nat - are grown up and discovering more about the world. But life after childhood can be confusing and frightening, and it...
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JOIN JO IN TH LAST EPISODE OF THE MARCH FAMILY ADVENTURES.
Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, Jo's boys - including wanderer Dan, sailor Emil and musician Nat - are grown up and discovering more about the world. But life after childhood can be confusing and frightening, and it is Jo and the warm-hearted March family who can comfort and guide the boys when they need it the most...
Plus a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141366098 (0141366095)
Publish date: 2015-08-27
Publisher: Puffin Books
Pages no: 401
Edition language: English
Series: Little Women (#3)
As much as I loved Little Women, you would think that I would have found the ongoing saga of the March family more entertaining than I actually did.This book takes place about ten years after Little Men, as the boys at Plumfield School are heading off to college or out into the world. I found the bo...
I've been listening to this at night, along with Little Men, for the last few weeks. I haven't a shred of objectivity abou this particular book, as it's one of my all-time favorites. Revisiting it as an adult, I can see more clearly some of its weaknesses, in particular its preachifying and the stil...
Standing by the 5 stars. As I've said before, these people are too intimately wound up with my psyche to be rated objectively. There's some preaching but to my eye it's not as heavy-handed as in Little Women. There are lots of great female role-models (with respect to the times). All of the young wo...