If some older people are reading this blog, you may know or read the classic novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. The book is about Josephine (Jo) March and her three sisters Margaret (Meg), Elizabeth (Beth) and Amy Curtis (Amy) as they grow up in their everyday lives. But what if the book was written TODAY instead of the year 1868? What if the March family was a mixed family instead of a plain Caucasian family? Luckily for us, author Rey Terciero (also known as Rex Ogle) has answered both of those questions with his graphic novel, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.
The March Sisters are dealing with a lot of pressure. As a mixed family, they all have different problems both at school and at home.
Megan (Meg) is the oldest sister, and wants the finest things in life, as well as getting an internship on fashion. But when she meets a cute boy named Geoff Brooks and realizes her sisters problems, she starts to have second thoughts…
Josephine (Jo) is the second oldest and wants to be an author when she grows up. She offers her sisters to accept themselves as who they are, yet Jo herself has a secret she doesn’t want to set free…
Beth is the second youngest, and the shyest. She loves music and when she gets a guitar, she encourages her sisters to seize the day. Beth seems to get tired and wants to sleep a lot in the middle of the book, but her sisters can help her….right?
Amy is the youngest and is very peppy. She loves fighting with her sister and is very good at drawing (and video games). But at her school, a girl named Tara Connor calls her racial slurs and bullies her just because of her looks, so is Amy truly all she seems?
All of the March Sisters are having a hard year, from cranky aunts to deadly diseases, but with a boy named Laurence (Laurie) and them having each other, they can handle anything.
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I dearly recommend the book to people that love books about strong female protagonists and the LGBTQ+ community.
Happy reading!
– Nova Subedi