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Portraits of Little women

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.

Beth's Snow Dancer

1999
As the family prepares for Christmas, Beth befriends a beautiful but sickly pony that strays into the March's yard and tries to keep it from being taken to Boston to be sold as a "useless beast.".

Amy's true prize

1999
Amy finds herself in a quandary when, after two of her paintings are accepted for the Christmas festival artist contest, she discovers that one of her entries is actually a work done by Marmee.

Little women

2002
An adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the joys and sorrows of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March, four sisters growing into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

2002
An adaptation of Kate Wiggin's story in which talkative ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.

I know this much is true

1999
For most of his life Dominick Birdsey has been living in the shadow of his schizophrenic identical twin, Thomas, but when Thomas commits a violent act that affects both their lives, Dominick decides to leave his home and search for his true identity.

The primrose way

1992
A recent arrival to the New World in 1633, sixteen-year-old Rebekah, a missionary's daughter, befriends a Native American woman and begins to question whether these "savages" need saving after all.

Louisa May Alcott's Little women

2012
An illustrated adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women, " which chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters--Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth--as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.

The New England Indians

1996
Contains illustrated drawings of over ten thousand years of Native American culture and survival in New England including how they dressed, built shelters, grew crops, made tools and weapons, treated disease, and traveled.

Puritanism

opposing viewpoints
1994
Uses primary sources to debate the spread of Puritanism in the United States and how historians view the Puritans.

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