However, this newfound social life distracts Laura from doing well in school so she doesn’t do as well on tests or homework assignments and therefore needs to take additional studies during the summer which is something that most students have to do if they fail classes during their regular school year. After a birthday party for one of her classmates named Ben Woodworth, Laura grows closer with her friends because she has more social interaction now than when she was just studying all the time in order to get good grades (which is something that teachers want). The town throws literary events such as minstrel shows, spelling bees, and singing contests. Clewett and he teaches Laura subjects that will help her get into college to become an English teacher like him. The teacher decides she can’t handle it anymore so she quits teaching.ĭuring the winter session, a new teacher arrives at school. Their neighbor’s daughter, Nellie Oleson, is mean to Laura and makes life difficult for her at school. They also meet new friends in the community. When Laura and her family move to town, they find a new home that is safer than their last one.
The Ingalls parents take Mary away while Laura, Grace and Carrie stay at home on the farm in De Smet, South Dakota They’re upset but decide that it’s okay for her not to attend college yet because they still have enough money from selling a cow. However, blackbirds destroy their crops before she can go to school. Pa and Ma expect that they’ll have enough money to send Mary to college next year. On the family farm, crops are growing well. He wins a buggy race during the celebration. That summer on Independence Day, Laura goes walking with Pa and Carrie (her mother) to celebrate with their neighbors when they see Almanzo (Laura’s future husband). However, she keeps working so that she can send her sister to school in Iowa for blind people. She takes up one of those jobs at an apparel company and despises it because it is monotonous and tedious. He asks her if she’s going to town for work because there are many jobs available there that women can do. One day, a fifteen year old girl named Laura is having dinner with her father. It was a record-breaking winter in the American Midwest. The book received a Newbery Honor award in 1942 for its unique female voice that lent itself to American literature The book is about a girl named Laura who lives with her family and experiences unique challenges as she comes of age.
It was one of her many books based on her life growing up in De Smet, South Dakota. Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote Little Town on the Prairie in 1941. 1-Page Summary of Little Town On the Prairie Overall Summary
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