Little Men

Josephine (Jo) Bhaer and her husband Fritz have run a boarding school for boys for several years. Now that Fritz has died everyone assumes that Jo will close the school. When Nick, a sailor home from the sea, hires on as handyman, Jo sees that there is a chance to keep the school open.

A dangerous measles epidemic breaks out at the school.

As Thanksgiving nears Amy decides that doesn't want her daughter in school with boys. Nick decides to return to the sea.

An old friend of Dan turns up at the school and asks Dan to leave with him.

Prejudice finds some unlikely allies when a poor black family arrives at Plumfield.

Nick and the children discover a battered pregnant woman in the forest.