![]() Some of the children she is teaching are older than she, and she has difficulty controlling them. The weather is bitterly cold, and neither the claim shanty where Laura boards or the school can be heated adequately. Laura being only 15 and a schoolgirl herself, is apprehensive as this is both the first time she has left home and the first school she has taught, but she is determined to complete her assignment and earn money to keep her sister Mary at her college for the blind in Iowa. Plot summary Īs the novel begins, Pa is taking Laura 12 miles from home in the dead of winter to her first teaching assignment at Brewster settlement. ![]() The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1944, as were the previous four Little House books. It spans the time period from 1882 to 1885, when they marry. It is based on her later adolescence near De Smet, South Dakota, featuring her short time as a teacher, beginning at age 15, and her courtship with Almanzo Wilder. ![]() ![]() These Happy Golden Years is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1943, the eighth of nine books in her Little House series – although it originally ended it. ![]()
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