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Little Women and Me
Little Women and Me
Little Women and Me
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Little Women and Me

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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. Lauren Baratz-Logsted's winning confection will appeal to fans of Little Women as well as anyone who enjoys a modern twist on an old favorite.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 8, 2011
ISBN9781599905907
Little Women and Me
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Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Lauren Baratz-Logsted is the author of several titles in many genres. She lives with her husband and daughter in Danbury, CT.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    If you're not familiar with the basic plot points of Little Women and you want to avoid spoilers, you shouldn't read this book. However, if you've read the book, or at least seen the movie, there are probably a couple of things you'd like to change, just like Emily March in Little Women and Me. Emily is a middle child, with an older sister, Charlotte, and a younger sister, Anne. (Ring any bells?) An English assignment has her thinking about a book that she would change in some way. As she's thinking about Little Women, she suddenly finds herself surrounded by Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and Marmee in the 1860s. How did she get here? And what does she need to do to find her way home?This lighthearted story does have a moral or two for young readers, but it's not heavy-handed in its delivery. I'm sure a lot of us have imagined ourselves inside the world of a favorite book. It's fun to read this extended imagining and to view a classic of children's/YA literature in a new way. While there isn't any foul language in the book, there are occasional innuendos that some parents of tweens might find inappropriate, depending on their child's maturity level. If the book was a movie, I'd rate it PG. Readers who enjoy this book's premise might want to try Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series beginning with The Eyre Affair.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It took me a little while to get into this book, but I did find it enjoyable in the end. Emily receives an assignment at school: choose a favorite book and select one thing that you would change about it. She decides to change Little Women, but can't quite decide whether she'd stop Beth from dying or if she'd make it so Jo ends up with Laurie rather than Amy. Apparently, this indecision results in her being transported back to join the lives of the March girls, as the new, middle March. I enjoyed how she was clueless about the background information -- if it didn't specifically happen in the book, she knew nothing of it. So when time advanced (three years in one example) she was completely caught off guard and had to ask Beth what important things had happened during that time. It was fun reconnecting with the March sisters, and also fun reading her reactions to some of the outdated amusements they occupied themselves with. Sadly, Beth does still have to die, but Emily manages to engineer it so Jo ends up with Laurie, and when Emily returns to her modern life she learns that the change stuck. Girls who liked Little Women might enjoy this.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Cute premise and set up, but I didn't love it. The idea of being inserted into your favorite work of fiction sounds fun though and Emily's adjustment to 1862 was well done.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I read Little Women years ago and only vaguely remembered the story. So for me, I wanted to read this book not really because it revolves around Little Women, but just because of the idea of being fully immersed - physically - into one of your favorite stories. I mean, how awesome would that be? Little Women & Me is cute and almost whimsical in that way, but it is also filled with some great messages. Emily March's story starts off when her English teacher gives her an assignment - to write an essay about one thing she would change in any book. She sets her sights on Little Women, but what would she change? Beth's death? Or Amy ending up with the guy meant for Jo? As she is contemplating this, she gets sucked into Little Women, in the most literal way possible. She find her self as the middle March sister. Everyone seems to remember her, only she doesn't remember them (well, other than the main plot-points of the story) and she doesn't remember her own history (in terms of what they would remember). It is all very confusing. As Emily settles into her new position in the 19th Century, she starts to worry, namely: what happens when the story runs out? Will she ever make it back home? Is time still functioning where she came from? Is she missing in that world - or worse - dead? Through all the confusion, doubt and frightening thoughts, Emily still manages to learn a lot from the March sisters - and maybe even teach them a thing or too as well.If you loved Little Women I'm sure you'd be able to sympathize with Emily's thoughts and hopes to make a few changes. If you have never read Little Women, you could quite possibly be like me and find connections to other parts of the story, even the idea of the story itself. Everyone thinks about what it would be like to be a part of a favorite book. The plot is just universally relatable.However, there were a few things that just didn't add up for me... I didn't understand how some parts of the book Emily saw coming, and others she didn't expect at all. Then (no spoiler), a plot point revolving Amy didn't seem right. Also, Emily has a really young voice and personality, at first it got me a bit irritated, but then I began to accept it. Other than that, I really was laughing when lingo from the 21st Century was intermingled with the 19th. Just the cross over of cultures was really entertaining to explore. So overall, fun idea and story, a very cute story.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I've always been a fan of the classic "Little Women", so as soon as I saw this this book was based off that, I knew that I needed to read it. The main character Emily gets a school assignment to pick her favorite book, and to write a paper about three things she loved about the book and one thing she'd change. She could only pick one thing though according to her teacher so she knew she had to choose wisely. Everything changed when she starts writing the paper and finds herself as a March sister sitting in their living room. What fan of reading wouldn't love a chance to be plopped into a book and to have an oppurtunity to change something? The premise of that is so cool. The plot of the story at times dragged on a bit, but I loved the modern twist that Emily played in the role of Little Women, I felt like the time period rang true on both sides, and I loved how "modern" Emily slipped out a few times in the story, with words and phrases that weren't around back then. Emilys big struggle was figuring out what she wanted to change in the story and what her "purpose" was for being placed into the story. I don't want to spoil anything, but I loved the ending and the role that Amy ended up playing, and found that to be really unique and something I didn't see coming at all, and although the part with the teacher telling her to re-write her paper, confused me a bit (its been years since I read/watched Little Women) I also really like the twist that went into play there as well. I think the book had a great message, that sometimes change isn't always best, death is inevididable, and love can overcome a lot. It was a cute, fun read, and fans of Little Woman, and fans of reading in general, I think would all really enjoy this novel.

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