• Age: 8 to 12
• Grade: 3 to 7

A modern-day graphic novel adaptation of Little Women that explores identity, friendships, and new experiences through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Jo March. A must-read for fans of Raina Telgemeier.

With the start of eighth grade, Jo March decides it’s time to get serious about her writing and joins the school newspaper. But even with her new friend Freddie cheering her on, becoming a hard-hitting journalist is a lot harder than Jo imagined.

That’s not all that’s tough. Jo and her sisters—Meg, Beth, and Amy—are getting used to a new normal at home, with their dad deployed overseas and their mom, a nurse, working overtime.

And while it helps to hang out with Laurie, the boy who just moved next door, things get complicated when he tells Jo he has feelings for her. Feelings that Jo doesn’t have for him…or for any boy. Feelings she’s never shared with anyone before. Feelings that Jo might have for Freddie.
What does it take to figure out who you are? Jo March is about to find out.

Kathleen Gros is a cartoonist living in Vancouver, BC. She is the creator behind the graphic novel Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort Of) (HarperCollins 2020). Her other works include Last Night at Wyrmwood High (Cloudscape Comics, 2015), and Lunar Maladies (lunarmaladies.com, ongoing). She graduated with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2015 & teaches comics in the Continuing Studies program at Langara. You can find more of her work at kagcomix.com

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"This book deals with attraction in a way that will be comforting to readers . . . Louisa May Alcott would approve." — Kirkus Reviews

“This gentle, warm graphic novel adaptation will remind readers why the March family is long beloved." — Publishers Weekly

“A super-cute, heartstring-strumming, accessible rendition.” — School Library Journal