Kate Hamill's Little Women 

Jo March doesn't want to be like other girls; in fact, she's not even sure that she wants to be a girl, let alone deal with the restrictions the 19th century imposes on adult women. Jo is ambitious, rough around the edges, headstrong and yearning to be something special. As the nation is torn apart by civil war, Jo and her sisters struggle with what it means to grow up and with the sibling tensions created by four very different paths to womanhood. Restrictive gender roles, political beliefs, poverty and even love itself threaten to break these family ties. Kate Hamil's feminist friendly spin on an American classic is funny, poignant and above all engaging, original and relevant to modern audiences.