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- Jo's carriage breaks down, stranding her in an upcoming storm. Nick goes out in search of her, leaving Franz in charge of the children.
- 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.
- Jo's husband, Friedrich Bhaer, has died, and everyone expects Jo to close the school. When she hires sailor Nick Riley as caretaker for the grounds, things begin to change.
- 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.
- Meg is taken with an associate of Laurie's while Dan and Bess are at each other's throats as they're paired up for a science project.
- When Nat finds a poor black family camping in the school woods, Jo takes them into the house while trying to find employment for them, but unexpectedly discovers that prejudice can take many forms.
- 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.
- Nat asks Nick to enter a father-son ski tournament with him, so Jo must teach Nick how to ski. Laurie offers to be Dan's father for the day, which gives Nan an interesting idea.
- Nick is accused of murder, and the residents of Plumfield think his brother Ben is behind the crime.
- Jo becomes reclusive after she's held up at gun-point. Franz becomes distressed when Isabelle receives a letter from her brother.
- Amy and Laurie struggle through a marital dry spell while Fritz develops an interest in a most unlikely young woman.
- A student brings a case of the measles back to Plumfield, so the doctor quarantines the school.
- 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.
- Amy reluctantly agrees to send her daughter to Plumfield after Jo enrolls the school's first girl, and Nick plans on returning to the sea.
- 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, 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 joins the women's suffrage movement while Nan tries to prove that she has what it takes to become a doctor.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dan is overjoyed but Nat is skeptical when a young "old friend" from Boston appears at Plumfield with talk of going west for high adventures. Jo struggles as students are withdrawn from Plumfield for lack of an experienced teacher.
- Asia's father who's a vagrant whom she hasn't seen in years comes to town. He tries to reconcile with her but she doesn't want anything to do with him. Jo invites him to dinner and he says he'll be there, but doesn't show up.
- Nic and the boys go to get a Christmas tree but bring back a severely beaten woman. Preparations for an annual Christmas pageant are further complicated by emotional issues of some facing a first Christmas without cherished loved ones.
- A gift of two hundred books to Plumfield School prompts Franz to assign a project on philanthropy which the students turn into a competition. But Jo's horse Penny falling ill with pleurisy results in the demonstration of spontaneous philanthropy and the value of reading.
- Self-delusion strikes Laurie, who doesn't see that his recent infatuation with poker is disrupting his relationships with his family, and Anthea, who doesn't see her papers plagiarize Nat's abilities.