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This has a lot of memorable moments and great lessons for adolescents! I definitely recommend this one for family read-aloud or young adults!

A heads up that the beginning starts off a little slow and that not every single character from Little Men grew up to be perfect or as good as you’d wish. But we are all human, and I think Alcott specifically made her characters flawed/or be tempted so she could address life lessons that young adults would benefit by. It’s certainly a strength of Alcott’s to provide great moral lessons through her immortal characters.

Such lessons are: fame and fortune, courage, interacting with the opposite sex, drinking and gambling, laziness and personal presentation, career choices, ambition, forgiveness of others and yourself, getting past shame and regrets, waiting for love, and much more!

Alcott does mention women’s freedoms and rights a lot - she was definitely a feminist of her time. Of her time, and not of ours, and that’s something I had to remind myself of. Alcott was speaking to rights to vote and careers, not to the rubbish pushed today.

Be sure to add this to your home library! And I thought this narrator did a fabulous job for this and Little Men!

Ages: 12+

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