num_pages: 319
description: For those who have already come to know the March family in Little Women, Little Men needs no introduction, for it is a continuation of that story with Jo March, the headstrong tomboy, a married woman and the mistress of Plumfield, a school for boys. It is Jo's harum scarum ways when she was young that help her to understand the merry pranks of the tenants of Plumfield.If the Marches, with their frolics, problems and pervading love for each other, were the ideal family, then Plumfield, under the guidance of Jo and the scholarly, but kindly Professor Bhaer, is the ideal school. Instead of the regimentation of the nineteenth century school, with its emphasis upon strict discipline and the cram method of learning, Jo's school offers a refreshing and significant change. Each child is to be treated individually as a separate variety of flower, with its own special beauty, to be cared for according to its own special needs. This is the formula for the harvesting of Jo's crop of young lads, but the all important ingredients in the Bhaers' success is love--for the difficult and sullen as well as the sunny and clever--and it worked "like magic."
language: English
title: Little Men
titlecomplete: Little Men
characters: Teddy Bhaer, Josephine "Jo" March, Professor Bhaer, Rob Bhaer, Daisy Brooke, Demi Brooke
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Classic Literature, Young Adult, Literature, Classics, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 61169
places: Concord, Massachusetts
series: Little Women
publisher: Airmont Pub Co