Little Men

- Season 2

(1999)

A suit of negligence is filed against the school when young Tommy breaks his leg, giving the students an opportunity to learn about civil disobedience.

Amy goes overboard on organizing the city dance, while her daughter Bess gets into trouble trying to impress a college man by lying about her age.

When a lion escapes from a traveling circus, Dan runs away from Plumfield Academy in order to join the hunt, while Nat's violin skills come to the attention of an overbearing music teacher.

Amy and Laurie struggle through a marital dry spell while Fritz develops an interest in a most unlikely young woman.

Asia receives a very tempting offer from her aunt to run her uncle's restaurant in Philadelphia; Meg and the twins come to stay at Plumfield for a few days.

Jo becomes reclusive after she's held up at gun-point. Franz becomes distressed when Isabelle receives a letter from her brother.

Nick's younger brother, Ben, arrives at Plumfield to hide from a gambling debt. Bess sets her heart on becoming a professional singer, and no one has the heart to tell her that she's tone-deaf.

It's Halloween and the ghost stories are flying. Despite her pragmatism, these stories pique the wild side of Jo's imagination when she receives a book offer from a mysterious stranger.

A crack in the bathroom door leads to a series of misunderstandings between Jo and Nick. While searching for fossils, Nat and Nan find a large sum of money.

Jo joins the women's suffrage movement while Nan tries to prove that she has what it takes to become a doctor.

Jo, Amy, and Meg plan a fun "girl's day out" trip to Boston, but everything that could go wrong, goes wrong. They return bedraggled and quarreling, with each sister telling her own version of events, which exposes the hidden resentments between them.

Jo is feeling the strain of being a teacher, writer, parent, and curator of Plumfield and searches for a sign on what to do about it.

Nick is accused of murder, and the residents of Plumfield think his brother Ben is behind the crime.