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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling Little House series.
Author
Series
Publisher
Emerald Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Laura stared at the black cloud blotting out the sun. The cloud was unlike anything she had ever seen. As it got closer, it made a strange noise, like hail pelting the ground. Suddenly the sky began to rain grasshoppers. The bugs clung to Laura's hair and clothes and peered at her with bulging eyes. Soon they began destroying Papa's crops. From the big woods of Wisconsin to the Indian country of the Great Plains, new adventures and landscapes filled...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before - Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books.In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
93) School days
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Laura and her sisters share some good and bad times when they attend different schools near their various prairie homes.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Season two brings new challenges and unforgettable frontier adventures. When debts force Charles to work at several jobs, his entire family pitches in to earn the needed money. Mary's gift for mathematics makes her the talk of the town. Charles helps an ailing widow find care for her three children, and the Ingalls family celebrates the nations₂ centennial with a joyous town party.
96) Going to town
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1994, 1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Laura is in for a day filled with surprises when the Ingalls family spends the day in town.
98) Country school
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Follows Laura and Mary as they enter a new school in Walnut Grove. The three episodes included follow the Ingalls girls as they meet new classmates, prepare for a spring dance and perform plays with their newfound friends.
100) Sugar snow
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publications
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A spring snowfall in the Big Woods helps the trees make sap for maple syrup, and maple syrup means sweet sugar cakes for Laura.
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