Jo March has always loved making up stories for her sisters Meg the oldest then Beth and Amy the youngest have enjoyed Jo’s gift of fiction for years But when eighth grade starts Jo feels it’s time to get serious about her writing She even starts a blog to kickstart this journey but who knows if anyone is even reading it? So when Freddie a girl on the school newspaper asks her to join the staff as a reporter Jo knows it’s the perfect chance to see if she has what it takes to be a hard-hitting journalist But even with Freddie cheering her on writing news stories is a lot harder than she imagined That’s not all that’s tough With the March sisters’ dad deployed overseas their mom working overtime to keep things running smoothly and Beth worried about her leukemia returning things at home are tense And while it helps lighten the sisters’ world having a new friend in Laurie the boy who just moved in next door things get complicated when he tells Jo he has feelings for her Feelings that Jo doesn’t have for him…or for any boy Feelings she’s never shared with anyone before Feelings that Jo thinks she might have for Freddie How do you discover who you want to become when you’re not entirely sure who you are? Jo March is about to find out