#94 in Middle grade
Farmer Boy
- 372
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Farmer Boy” paints a warm, easy-going picture of a boy’s life on a prosperous farm in nineteenth-century rural America. Laura Ingalls Wilder leaves the Ingalls family aside in this volume, and every chapter works as a self-contained episode. Light and cosy in tone, it suits the whole family, and some readers rank it above most of the other Little House books. It needs no knowledge of the rest of the series.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Farmer Boy is a children's historical novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1933. It was the second-published one in the Little House series but it is not related to the first, which that of the third directly continues. Thus the later Little House on the Prairie is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of "the Laura Years".
Reading order · Little House on the Prairie
Full order & progress →- Little House in the Big WoodsStart here
7.97.9 / 10 - Farmer BoyThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - Little House on the Prairie
7.97.9 / 10 - On the Banks of Plum Creek
7.97.9 / 10 - By the Shores of Silver Lake
7.77.7 / 10 - The Long Winter
7.97.9 / 10 - Little Town on the Prairie
7.87.8 / 10 - These Happy Golden Years
7.87.8 / 10 - The First Four Years
7.67.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 126 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 46% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Middle grade average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 23 | 18% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 103 | 82% |
Frequently asked
What age is Farmer Boy for?
Farmer Boy sits on the Children shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 5–10. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 372 pages — shorter than 66% of the ranked books in Middle grade.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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