Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 1868
Word Count 183,833
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1300L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 513
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Family life--New England--Fiction
- Family
- Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
- Mothers and daughters
- New England--Juvenile fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Sisters
- March family (Fictitious characters)
- Sisters--Fiction
- New England
- Families--New England--Juvenile fiction
- Autobiographical fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Young women
- Sisters--New England--Juvenile fiction
- Family life--History--19th century--New England--Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Classics
- New England--Fiction
- March family (Fictitious characters)--Juvenile fiction
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