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Little Town on the Prairie
Children's fiction
Little Town on the Prairie
Book 7 of the Little House series
400 pages · First published 1941
The Ingalls family settles more firmly into the growing town of De Smet, where Laura attends school, makes friends and rivals, and watches institutions of community life take shape around her. Pa’s finances remain uncertain, Mary’s college education matters deeply to the family, and Laura begins thinking seriously about earning a teaching certificate. Social gatherings and encounters with Almanzo Wilder add new dimensions to a life once dominated by survival. The novel portrays adolescence on the Dakota frontier as the prairie gradually becomes a town with schools, churches, businesses, and expectations.
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Racist stereotypes and blackface/minstrel-show performance; severe winter hardship and hunger memories; school/social bullying; religious revival themes; mild adolescent courtship.
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