West From Home
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This fascinating firsthand account of life and travel in the early twentieth century includes 24 pages of photographs. “It is like a fairyland.” So Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the beloved Little House series, described her 1915 voyage to San Francisco to visit her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. Laura’s husband, Almanzo, was unable to leave their Missouri farm; her faithful letters home, vividly describing every detail of her journey, have been gathered here. Perfect for supplementary classroom or homeschool research.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) was born in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout America’s heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on into the twenty-first century as America’s quintessential pioneer story.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780064400817
- Publication Date
- October 20, 1976
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Original Publication Date
- November 1, 1974
- Page Count
- 124
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Reading Age
- 10 - 14 years
- Lexile® Level
- 1080L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~Z
- ATOS® Book Level
- 5.7
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 5096
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