Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie series cover

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Follow Laura and the Ingalls family through the everyday adventures and challenges of pioneer life, beginning in a small cabin in the Wisconsin woods.

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Books with resources on Rise to Reading, listed by book number.

Books in this series

4 books with resources

  1. Book 1 Little House in the Big Woods

    Grades 2–3

    The Ingalls family is snug in their Wisconsin house in spite of blizzards, wolves, and the lonely forest.

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  2. Book 2 Farmer Boy

    Grades 4–8

    Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.

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  3. Book 3 Little House on the Prairie

    Grades 3–7

    Laura and her family journey by covered wagon into Indian territory, and start a farm. The plot contains racial prejudice within historical context.

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  4. Book 4 On the Banks of Plum Creek

    Grades 4–7

    After moving to Minnesota, the Ingalls family encounters a terrible blizzard and a grasshopper plague. The plot contains racial prejudice within historical context.

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