<p>Really? *Eight Cousins *and especially Rose in Bloom are my favorite Alcott books. In fact I liked Rose in Bloom so much I made it the focus of a paper I wrote for a women’s history class I took in college.</p>
<p>There are four books in the Melendy quartet: The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five, and Spiderweb for Two. My favorite when I was younger was the last, but now I like the first one best.</p>