This book by is a biography of Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), author of "Little Women." Upon reading this book, one can see how much of the author's life is given in her most famous work. This biography won the 1934 Newbery Medal for best contribution to American children's literature. The young reviewer below from Pickering, Canada, complained about how the book drags on. Well, it is a little slow. What is more intriguing is the report that this book was required reading for our young reviewer in her 11th grade English class!!! The teacher of that class should be horsewhipped. This book is for young students, at most ages 12 or 13 (thus, grades 6 or 7). In a local school in this area, students were required to read in their 8th grade English class, among other things, "The Odyssey", "1984", "Animal Farm", and "Lord of the Flies"! 6th graders had to read "The Good Earth", "The Hobbit", "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and Steinbeck's "The Pearl".

I've started reading this book and the beguinning really does drag on, i agree. It gets better, but very slowly....

I think that Invincible Louisa is a wonderful, well written book. No offence meant to the other reviewers of this book, but I think that Invincible Louisa did not drag along slowly at all. It is a wonderful book for 11, 12, and 13 year olds, or 10 year olds who are advanced in reading. However, to like this book, you have to like Little Women, or any other of Louisa's books. If you like books about American History, around the time of the Civil War, you will also probably like this book. It is a vivid account of Louisa May Alcott and her faimly's life. It tells how they struggled through poverty and other hardships that would have destroyed any other faimly's life.