Little Women
Alcott Louisa May
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
Little Women, a Level 1 Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Short sentences contain a maximumof two clauses, introducing the past simple tense and some simple modals, adverbs and gerunds. Illustrations support the text throughout.
Little Women is the story of a poor American family in the American Civil War. The four sisters, Beth, Jo, Meg and Amy are very different. But together they work hard and help their mother and father. Sometimes their lives are very happy, and sometimes they are very sad. But the family's love always helps them.