Author

Laura Ingalls Wilder

4 books Grades 2–8 1 series

About

Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up in a pioneer family that traveled by covered wagon across the American frontier. Many years later she wrote about those days in the Little House books, beginning with Little House in the Big Woods. Farmer Boy tells about the childhood of her husband, Almanzo. The books are a wonderful look at pioneer life.

Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House

#1 Little House in the Big Woods
Grades 2–3 GRL Q 5 AR pts
The Ingalls family is snug in their Wisconsin house in spite of blizzards, wolves, and the lonely forest.
#2 Farmer Boy
Grades 4–8 GRL P 9 AR pts
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…
#3 Little House on the Prairie
Grades 3–7 GRL Q 8 AR pts
Laura and her family journey by covered wagon into Indian territory, and start a farm. The plot contains racial prejudice within historical context.
#4 On the Banks of Plum Creek
Grades 4–7 GRL Q 8 AR pts
After moving to Minnesota, the Ingalls family encounters a terrible blizzard and a grasshopper plague. The plot contains racial prejudice within historical context.