Portraits of little women

Because she desperately wants to have her picture taken, ten-year-old Amy finds a way to accumulate the necessary five dollars but then decides to spend it in another way.

When a wealthy aunt offers to adopt one of the March girls, ten-year-old Jo decides the best thing to do is sacrifice herself.

Desperate for art lessons, Amy hopes to manipulate her friendship with two other girls to get what she wants.

As each of the four March sisters turns ten, she is invited by Aunt March at Christmastime to discuss who will receive an heirloom, an old cameo brooch, and thus each girl contemplates her role in the family.

Meg is thrilled to be asked to sing at a friend's wedding, until she meets the groom's sister and they become instant enemies.

Although Amy encourages the attentions of Robert, a well-to-do classmate, she must face her true feelings when he surprises her with an expensive gift.

Jo March is given a journal in which to record her most private thoughts, but when her sisters read what she has written, it threatens to tear them apart.