By The Shores of Silver Lake - Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Title: By The Shores of Silver Lake Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder Genre: Classics Rating: 4/5 # pages: 220, Audiobook ~6hrs Date read: July 2007, March 2011, August 2012, January 2018

The days of moving from place to place are finally over for the Ingalls family. After going through a very hard time on Plum Creek, good news comes in the form of Aunt Docia, who hasn't seen them since they left the Big Woods. She's married now, and her husband works for the railroad in the Dakota Territory. He's in desperate need of help, so Pa decides to leave the Plum Creek area and move west with the railroad.

After they've moved west, they have the job of setting up their new home in the wilderness all by themselves. The last workmen have moved out and they are all alone. Or so they think. One man remained behind and he and his new wife become the family's closest friends. Little by little, new people start arriving and making their own homes. Pa has to act fast if he's to claim the homestead he'd picked out!


This is very obviously a 'transitional' book where Laura has to get her and her family from one place to the next but not much happens. It's a true sign of a good author, however, when even books where 'not much happens' are well worth reading :)