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A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.

2) Little house on the prairie / (bk. 2 Little House)

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The Ingalls family packs up their covered wagon and travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home in Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. On the prairie, they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.

3) The first four years / (bk. 9 Little House)

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During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

4) These happy golden years / (bk. 8 Little House)

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Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almonzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.

5) On the banks of Plum Creek / (bk. 4 Little House)

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Pa Ingalls builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. The money for materials will come from their first wheat crop, until millions of grasshoppers cover the field and ruin the crop.

6) Farmer boy / (bk. 3 Little House)

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The year Almanzo Wilder turned nine (1866) was an important one for the young farm boy in northern New York state.

7) Little town on the prairie / (bk. 7 Little House)

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1971

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Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.

8) By the shores of Silver Lake / (bk. 5 Little House)

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Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

9) The long winter / (bk. 6 Little House)

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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

10) Pioneer girl: the annotated autobiography

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