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These Happy Golden Years
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Plot Summary of These Happy Golden Years
"Mary is off at school and, as usual, money is tight for the Ingalls family. To help out, Laura leaves to teach school in a drafty shanty school house twelve miles from her home. Laura feels miserable and homesick, many of the students are taller than she and when she is not teaching she boards all week with a spiteful woman.

Things aren't all bad, though. Rain or shine Almanzo Wilder arrives to take young Laura, not yet sixteen years old, home to her loving family for the weekend.

Laura and Almanzo's friendship blossoms into a tender love. The eigth book in the Little House series ends with the two young love birds engaged and then married."

Ashley Abbott, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - 19th century
Life of a profession: - teacher
Job/Profession/Status story Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - teacher
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
United States Yes
The US: - Midwest
Prairie? Yes
Farm/Ranch? Yes
Farm/Ranch: - farm

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
A Little House of Their Own by Celia Wilkins
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Little House In The Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian


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