These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Paperback)

Fifteen year old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but keeps at it so that she can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at college for the blind. During school vacations Laura has fun with her singing lessons, going on sleigh rides, and best of all, helping Almanzo Wilder drive his new buggy. Friendship soon turns to love for Laura and Almanzo in the romantic conclusion of this Little House book.

Grades 3-5
Paperback
Color Images
289 pages
ISBN: 0-06-058187-5

About the author: Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the log cabin described in Little House in The Big Woods. As her classic Little House books tell us, she and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-wagon trip with their daughter, Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri. There Laura wrote her story in the Little House books and lived until she was ninety years old. For millions of readers, however, she lives forever as the little pioneer girl in the beloved Little House books.

Image description: The cover features an illustration of a man and a woman holding hands. The man is wearing a brown suit, and the woman is wearing a long pink dress, and holding a straw hat. The man is holding on to a tree branch, and they are standing in front of a pond in the middle in a field. The title and illustrator's name are printed at the bottom of the cover, and the author's name is printed along the right side of the cover.