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By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House-the Laura Years)
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Binding: Audio Cassette
EAN: 9780060564995
Edition: Unabridged
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 0060564997
Label: HarperChildrensAudio
Manufacturer: HarperChildrensAudio
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: October 01, 2004
Publisher: HarperChildrensAudio
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: October 05, 2004
Studio: HarperChildrensAudio
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America's Original Pioneer Girl
Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.
Pa Ingalls heads west to the unsettled wilderness of the Dakota Territory. When Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and baby Grace join him, they become the first settlers in the town of DeSmet. And Pa begins work on the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the shores of Silver Lake. By the Shores of Silver Lake is the fifth book in the Laura Years series.
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This fifth book in the Little House series relates Laura's memories as a young teenage girl, as her family is on the move yet again: from Plum Creek to Silver Lake and town yet to be built. Eager to find "the real west" Laura struggles with the chores of a prairie woman while inside she longs to rush headlong into the new landscape with childlike enthusiasm. Pa's cheerful fiddle music and Ma's quiet maternal authority provide a warm, stable foundation for family life--whether in the big woods, ... Read More
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Laura Ingalls and her family have been living along the banks of Plum Creek for over five-years now. While the lovely town has a school that Laura and her sisters may attend, it lacks much else; and Pa has spent countless years trying to keep afloat, and stop himself, and his family, from succumbing to death. Which is why Pa believes that moving West to Dakota Territory, is the best way to keep a roof over his family's head. Laura, couldn't be happier. As opposed to the rest of her family, which is ... Read More
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Timeless book series. Every generation should have the original series, especially with Garth William's illustrations.
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I bought this book as a replacement for one that was missing from my collection.
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This is the fifth of nine books in the "Little House" historical fiction series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The book starts with the news, in the first chapter, that Laura's older sister Mary has gone blind. The information is related matter-of-factly, "Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word." (p. 2)
Laura has to become Mary's eyes and see ... Read More
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