Meigs, Cornelia. Invincible Louisa: The Story Of The Author Of Little Women. Boston: Little, Brown, 1968.
Newbery Award winning biography for young people.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Portraits Of Little Women: Amy Makes A Friend. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.Desperate for art lessons, Amy tries to manipulate her friendship with two other girls to get what she wants.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Portraits Of Little Women: Amy's Story. New York: Delacorte Press, 1997.
Because she desperately wants to have her picture taken, ten-year-old Amy finds a way to save the necessary five dollars but then decides to spend it another way.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Portraits Of Little Women: Beth Makes A Friend. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.
Beth tries to help an impoverished Irish immigrant boy and his family by stealing a silver bowl from her great aunt and giving it to his family to sell.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Portraits Of Little Women: Beth's Story. New York: Delacorte Press, 1997.
Relates the story of Beth’s trip to New York in the days before the Civil War.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Portraits Of Little Women: Christmas Dreams: Four Stories. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.
As each of the four March sisters turns ten, she is invited by Aunt March at Christmastime to discuss who will receive an heirloom, an old cameo brooch, and thus each girl contemplates her role in the family.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Portraits Of Little Women: Jo Makes A Friend. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.
Great-Aunt March asks Jo to befriend a sad and lonely blind girl whom is visiting the neighborhood.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Portraits Of Little Women: Jo's Story. New York: Delacorte Press, 1997.
Young Jo decides to let her wealthy Aunt adopt her.
Pfeffer, Ssusan Beth. Portraits Of Little Women: Meg Makes A Friend. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.
Meg plans to sing at a friend's wedding, until she meets the groom's sister and they become instant enemies.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Portraits Of Little Women: Meg’s Story. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.
When ten-year-old Meg receives an invitation to a friend's picnic but Jo does not, Meg must decide whether to stay home in loyalty to her sister or to follow her heart and attend.
Ruth, Amy. Louisa May Alcott. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1999.
Biography for older readers.
Spedden, Daisy Corning Stone. Polar, The Titanic Bear. Toronto: Little, Brown and Company Canada, 1994.
The story of the Titanic as revealed from the journals of a stuffed bear who survived the fatal voyage.
Wallner, Alexandra. An Alcott Family Christmas. New York: Holiday House, 1996.
The Alcotts are sitting down to their holiday supper when they receive the opportunity to do some good for their neighbors.
Woodruff, Elvira. Dear Levi: Letters From The Overland Trail. New York: Knopf, 1998.
Something to attract male readers! Austin Ives, age 12, writes letters to his younger brother describing his long journey by wagon train from their home in Pennsylvania to Oregon in 1851.