This biography won the Newbery Medal for the year in which it was first published. Since then it has found thousands upon thousands of readers who have delighted in its vivid portrayal of Louisa May Alcott and her eventful career. With this new edition, issued in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the publication of LITTLE WOMEN, many more readers will meet the real Louisa. Here she is, acting in her own play in the barn behind the Alcott home,...

After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.