These Happy Golden Years (Little House, 8)
The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wilder begins to seek her company.
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Starts off well, like most of the other books. Laura is about 16 years old at the beginning. Though she's still going to school, Laura has work-related adventures as a teacher and begins to grow up. Mary is progressing at college and all of this is great.
Then Pa spends all her teaching money, IN ADVANCE, on a musical organ. Yuck.
Then page after unromantic page about boring Almanzo Wilder and his dangerous unbroken horse.
The ending is particularly bad, and I almost imagine her at the end, sitting outside her cabin, realization dawning in her eyes that she's made a terrible mistake.
Then Pa spends all her teaching money, IN ADVANCE, on a musical organ. Yuck.
Then page after unromantic page about boring Almanzo Wilder and his dangerous unbroken horse.
The ending is particularly bad, and I almost imagine her at the end, sitting outside her cabin, realization dawning in her eyes that she's made a terrible mistake.
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