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Farmer Boy
Children's fiction
Farmer Boy
Book 2 of the Little House series
384 pages · First published 1933
Almanzo Wilder grows up on a prosperous farm in northern New York, where his childhood revolves around animals, food, family work, school, and his longing to be trusted with horses. Unlike the Ingalls-centered books, this installment follows the boy who will later become Laura’s husband. Seasonal farm tasks reveal both the abundance of the Wilder household and the discipline required to maintain it. The second Little House book offers a detailed portrait of nineteenth-century farm childhood built around work, appetite, family expectations, and Almanzo’s gradual movement toward greater responsibility.
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Farm accidents and physical punishment; animal slaughter/butchering and hunting; illness and injury; school bullying/fighting; historical gender expectations.
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