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From: Child Life
Date: 19970601
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by Louisa May Alcott Little, Brown $7.95 U.S./$8.95 Canada

Were you sad when you finished reading the classic story of Little Women? So were the kids who first read it in 1868.They clamored so loudly for more that Miss Alcott wrote Little Men and Jo's Boys.

In Little Men, the family frolic continues in the lives of Meg, Jo, Amy, and Laurie. After boisterous Jo marries Professor Bhaer, they open the Plumfield school and boardinghouse for boys. Amid school lessons and life lessons, the boys have plenty of time for Saturday night pillow fights and the wonderful pranks they ...

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