Beth Doesn't Die in This One: 11 Companion Titles that Remix 'Little Women'

by NCTE & SLJ Reviews
May 12, 2022 | Filed in News & Features

Sisterly bonds and friction, discussions of class, and post–Civil War historical fiction capture the essence of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott's most famous work. Plus, a biography of the author herself!


 

Sisterly bonds and friction, discussions of class, and post–Civil War historical fiction capture the essence of Louisa May Alcott's most famous work. Plus, a biography of the author herself! 


Fiction

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. HarperCollins/HarperTeen. ISBN 9780062882769. 

Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron. S. & S./Simon Pulse. ISBN 9781481459501.  

Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman. Graphic Universe. ISBN 9781512440003.    

 

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray. ISBN 9780062570604.  

More to the Story by Hena Kahn. S. & S./Salaam Reads. ISBN 9781481492096.     

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry. Algonquin. ISBN 9781616208967.    

So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow. Feiwel & Friends. ISBN 9781250761217.      
 

Nonfiction

Spectuacular Sisters: Amazing Stories of Sisters from Around the World by Aura Lewis. HarperCollins/Quill Tree. ISBN 9780062947659.

A Hopeful Heart: Louisa May Alcott Before Little Women by Deborah Noyes. Random/Schwartz & Wade. ISBN 9780525646235.

Free Lunch by Rex Ogle.Norton. ISBN 9781324003601.   

History vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don't Want You to Know by Ebony Adams & Anita Sarkeesian illus. by T.S. Abe. Feiwel & Friends. ISBN 9781250146731.    

 

 

 

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