Little Women and Me
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- R$ 39,90
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- R$ 39,90
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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.
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An English assignment to find something to change in a well-loved novel becomes a catalyst for a trip into a fictional world. When insecure high school freshman Emily March isn't obsessively trying to turn herself into someone boys will like better than her sisters, she enjoys reading. She knows exactly what she would change about her beloved Little Women: Beth would not die, and Jo, not Amy, would marry Laurie, the boy next door. Her idealizations of the March girls change, however, when she gets sucked into their world, becoming once again the middle March sister and competing with her sisters (especially her idol Jo) for a boy's attention. As Emily adjusts to the lack of modern conveniences ("How I missed Facebook!"), she tries to discern her purpose for entering the novel. Baratz-Logsted (The Education of Bet) fully embraces the corniness of her fish-out-of-water premise ("Talk about being sucked into a book"; "alk about getting lost in a good book"), but those upset over the fates of certain characters in the original will find reason to rejoice in this retelling. Ages 12 up.
