Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill by Louisa May Alcott

"Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill" by Louisa May Alcott is a novel published in 1875. Thirteen-year-old orphan Rose Campbell arrives at her wealthy family's estate, sickly and uncertain of her future. When her unconventional guardian Uncle Alec returns from abroad, he revolutionizes her care with unorthodox ideas about health and education. Surrounded by seven boisterous boy cousins and befriending the housemaid Phebe, Rose must navigate family dynamics while discovering who she wants to become in this exploration of childhood, education, and finding one's place. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Title Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Cousins
Credits E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Emmy, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (www.archive.org/details/americana)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 74.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Cousins -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Family life -- Juvenile fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 38567
Release Date
Last Update Jan 18, 2012
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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