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Louisa May Alcott

Concord for Christmas

December 23, 2016 by Amy 3 Comments

Our last stop on our Boston Christmas vacation was Concord.  Oh, how I loved visiting Concord!  Steady Eddie and I had been through Concord back seventeen years ago this past June on our honeymoon trip (ultimate destination:  PEI).  We had a limited amount of time on both trips, so we had to pick and choose … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Education Tagged: Boston, Christmas, Concord, Field Trips, Holiday, literary trips, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, U.S. History

Fruitlands by Gloria Whelan

March 3, 2015 by Amy 2 Comments

Two things led me to finally check Fruitlands by Gloria Whelan out of the library and actually read it:  first, as a Gloria Whelan fan, I had looked at it numerous times and even possibly checked it out before but lacked the impulse to actually read it until second, I read Invincible Louisa, the juvenile … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Juvenile Fiction Tagged: Juvenile Fiction, Louisa May Alcott

Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs

February 27, 2015 by Amy 8 Comments

Reading Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs was like catching up with an old friend whom I hadn’t seen (or truthfully even thought of) in years.  The subtitle of this juvenile biography is The story of the author of Little Women, and that’s just what it is.  However, it is written in such a way to seem … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Newbery Award Tagged: Award Book, Juvenile Nonfiction, Louisa May Alcott, Newbery Award, Newbery Through the Decades

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And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer


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