An Old-fashioned Girl (Large Print) (Paperback)

from BookBrook

This is my FAVORITE of Louisa May Alcott's books. Even more than Little Women. I really like romance stories and this is one of my favorite books ever. It's really encouraging to see how an poor old-fashioned girl can really shine and make a difference even though her weaknesses. She is an honest...

from SueinCyprus

This is a wonderful, somewhat weepy old-fashioned kind of book really intended for teenagers but probably read more by younger girls and adults these days. It was written in about 1870 so inevitably the language is dated, and the style peppered with comments from the author about good mothers and...

from grass823

This is a classic book. It is a great book for young girls. I think it was pretty good, except it was a little unorganized. In all I loved it! Polly and Maud are great characters. It is great to read on snowy winter days. I t was about a girl, named Polly, who is from the country and goes to visi...

from wenzowsa

Like some other reviewers, this is my favourite Louisa May Alcott book (the second being "Jack and Jill", and the third being the famous "Little Women"). I highly enjoy Polly, and her moral education throughout the book. I feel that Polly embodies the purity of spirit that was the 19th century id...

from SueinCyprus

This is a wonderful, somewhat weepy old-fashioned kind of book really intended for teenagers but probably read more by younger girls and adults these days. It was written in about 1870 so inevitably the language is dated, and the style peppered with comments from the author about good mothers and...