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| Original Title: | These Happy Golden Years |
| ISBN: | 0060264802 (ISBN13: 9780060264802) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Little House #8, Unsere kleine Farm #7 |
| Characters: | Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Quiner Ingalls, Charles Ingalls, Mary Ingalls, Carrie Ingalls, Grace Ingalls, Almanzo Wilder, Nellie Oleson |
| Setting: | De Smet, South Dakota(United States) South Dakota(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (1944) |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Hardcover | Pages: 289 pages Rating: 4.19 | 63787 Users | 1284 Reviews
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| Title | : | These Happy Golden Years (Little House #8) |
| Author | : | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 289 pages |
| Published | : | October 14th 1953 by Harper & Row, Publishers (first published 1943) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Childrens. Fiction. Young Adult. Middle Grade |
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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 the 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.Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts
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Strap in, folks. This might be a long one, since it's my favorite book in the series.We begin our story once again in the cold winter of the Dakota Territories. Laura has received her teaching certificate and begins teaching school to keep Mary in college. She dreads teaching, she doesn't want to leave home, but she pulls herself up by her bootstraps and puts on a brave face. The school is 12 long, cold miles from home. She's staying with the school board president's family, run by his awfulI am very bitter about the $100 organ Pa insisted Laura needed to buy for Mary to play during her visits home (for a couple of weeks every other year or something). This was the money nobody could afford to waste.
Ok so how could I not put my favorite LHOTP book on my bookshelf? I can't. There just ain't better readin' than a little LHOTP. Especially with a little fiddle music in the background while wearing a bonnet.
I always like to read THIS book after reading 'The Long Winter', even if it does not keep the correct order- this just seems like the proper continuation of where 'Winter' leaves off. I like this one because it tells the story of Laura and Almanzo's courtship, beginning when she is 15 and ending with their marriage when she is 18. As a kid, it always blew my mind that they had never ever even kissed until they were ENGAGED! Hell, I was reading this at 10 or 11, and *I* had kissed boys by then!
I finished up my reread of this series today. It's just comforting, to read those old childhood favorites with new eyes. My heart still skips a beat when Almanzo asks Laura if he can see her home that first time! I still get scared with Laura during her first teaching job (how awful was that Mrs Brewster?!) I chalk a lot of how good I did in certain classes in school to stories like these, and wish more kids today were still reading them.ETA 2017: I think that, in spite of this series not being
The first love story I ever read and still my favorite. Listening to the audiobook with my kids, I used it as a teaching moment: Girls, if you get married you need to look for someone willing to drive a sleigh for hours in negative forty degree weather for you, like Almanzo did for Laura.My daughter replied ... but, Mom ... we live in Florida so ....?Hopefully they still get the idea.
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