#129 in Children’s books
Little Town on the Prairie
- 307
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Little Town on the Prairie” shows a noticeably more grown-up Laura in a light, funny volume of the “Little House” series. At fifteen she takes her first paid job and sits through her final term of school in De Smet, and some readers enjoy the classroom quarrels and warm to Almanzo. It is the seventh of nine books and begins once the hard season of “The Long Winter” is over.
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About the book
Little Town on the Prairie is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1941, the seventh of nine books in her Little House series. It is set in De Smet, South Dakota. It opens in the spring after the Long Winter and ends as Laura becomes a school teacher so she can help her sister Mary stay at a school for the blind in Vinton, Iowa. It tells the story of 15-year-old Laura's first paid job outside of home and her last term of schooling. At the end of the novel, she receives a teacher's certificate and is employed to teach at the Brewster settlement, 12 miles (19 km) away.
Reading order · Little House on the Prairie
Full order & progress →- Little House in the Big WoodsStart here
7.97.9 / 10 - Farmer Boy
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 PrairieThis book
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 116 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 44% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Children’s books average of 7.9. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 20 | 17% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 96 | 83% |
Frequently asked
What age is Little Town on the Prairie for?
Little Town on the Prairie 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 307 pages — longer than 76% of the ranked books in Children’s books.
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