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The family will eventually need to move on from Kansas as the government tells them that the land must be vacated as it is not legally open for settlement yet. The family leaves before the Army arrived to forcibly remove them.

The family is on the move again in the next book in the series, On the Banks of Plum Creek. Pa builds a house for the family while the girls get to go to school for the first time at Barry Corner School. It is there that they meet Miss Eva Beadle, their teacher. The family also begins to attend the town church on Sundays where they meet new friends.

Things are going well for the family until a plague of Rocky Mountain Locust devastates their crops. The family is struggling to survive so Pa heads east alone to get a job in order to make enough money to get them through the year. They decide to make the move after the family fell ill with scarlet fever. As winter approaches many are leaving to head back East, but the Ingalls family ends up house-sitting for a surveyor.

The house is large with all the provisions they need, the family is quite comfortable for the winter. As their father goes to stake a claim, the girls spend their days and nights boarding and feeding all the pioneers. After her death, an original draft of The First Four Years was published in The book follows a promise that Laura made to Almanzo about being a farm wife. She never wanted to be one, but she promised him that she would try it for three years.

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The writing is simple yet very descriptive. I feel it is my duty as an educator to introduce excellent literature to my students. Farmer Boy — available in kindle , hardcover , and paperback. Here Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter, there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored.

Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town. Her storytelling continues to shine. Her simple prose is an absolute delight and wonder. I was first exposed to the work well over fifty years ago and still, to this day, give this book, and the others in the series, a read from time to time.

I cannot think of better books to get kids interested in reading. Not only are they exposed to the work of a very skilled writer and storyteller, but they get a very vivid look at life as it was several generations ago, through the eyes of a child. I cannot recommend this work, and the other books in this series highly enough. Little House on the Prairie — available in kindle , hardcover , and paperback. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas.

They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie.

Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Sometimes pioneer life is hard, but Laura and her folks are always busy and happy in their new little house. The other half is the warm and loving relationship between the Ingalls family, who cherish their little community far more than their meager possessions. This book should be a priority for them all.

On the Banks of Plum Creek — available in kindle , hardcover , and paperback. The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek.

Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles. In particular, the way that the Ingalls must observe nature and learn to live within the context of its rhythms and cycles was very interesting.

By the Shores of Silver Lake — available in kindle , hardcover , and paperback. The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect for their new little house.

Laura takes her first train ride as she, her sisters, and their mother come out to live with Pa on the shores of Silver Lake. A happy and coincidental reunion with Reverend Alden, and his sweet suggestion that Mary might someday attend college.

Laura is making a new and adventurous friend in her cousin Lena at the camp. The family also takes delight in making special Christmas gifts for each other, and sweet Ma gives up something special of her own to make an unexpected Christmas houseguest happy.