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These Happy Golden Years
Children's fiction
These Happy Golden Years
Book 8 of the Little House series
289 pages · First published 1943
Laura Ingalls begins teaching school away from home at fifteen, enduring a difficult household because her wages can help send Mary to college. Almanzo Wilder repeatedly drives through winter weather to bring her home on weekends, and their friendship gradually becomes courtship. Teaching, family work, and the growing settlement mark Laura’s transition from girlhood toward adult independence. This later Little House novel combines prairie life and coming-of-age with the quiet development of the relationship that will shape Laura’s future.
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Severe winter weather and dangerous travel; isolation while teaching away from home; school discipline/conflict; courtship and kissing-level affection; marriage at the conclusion.
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