Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Long Winter

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1940

During an exceptionally harsh winter on the Dakota prairie, the Ingalls family faces relentless blizzards that isolate them for months. Laura and her family must rely on their resourcefulness and each other to survive extreme conditions, from dwindling supplies to the constant threat of freezing temperatures. This volume vividly depicts the challenges of frontier life and the enduring strength of family bonds in the face of overwhelming natural adversity.

On the Banks of Plum Creek

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1937

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1935

A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.

Farmer Boy

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1933

Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing-his very own horse. But Father doesn't yet trust him with such a big responsibility. Almanzo needs to prove himself-but how? Almanzo's story as a young man, Almanzo Wilder will meet a brown-eyed, brown-haired girl named Laura Ingalls and fall in love. But as a young boy, Almanzo has no time for girls! His life is about farming and chores, and most of all, about wanting his own horse. Before his dreams can come true, Almanzo must prove to his father that he is ready to take on more responsibilities - and this is harder than he ever imagined.

Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1932

"Little House in the Big Woods" is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper in 1932. It was Wilder's first book published and it inaugurated her Little House series. It is based on memories of her early childhood in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the early 1870s. Based on a 2007 online poll, the U.S. National Education Association named the novel one of its ""Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children"". In 2012, it was ranked number 19 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal – the first of three Little House books in the Top 100.

By the Shores of Silver Lake

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1924

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.