little house on the prairie book set 1971

But when the child dies, Laura is plagued by guilt over his death as she refused to pray for his health. The Ingalls family welcome a new baby boy to its fold. Mary is inspired to take an extra credit exam to win an award, but when her mother forbids her to take the exam, Mary doesn’t take the news well.

The twon splits on what to do and the children must come up with an answer to save the day. Oleson offers to donate one and a plaque commemorating her generosity. When Reverend Alden asks Walnut Grove for a Church bell, Mrs. Whena rabid raccoon starts attacking their chickens, Mary reveals her to their father. But when the raccoon bites her and runs away, Laura swears Mary to secrecy about the bite. When Mary brings home a raccoon, Laura decides to keep as a pet. When school teacher Miss Beadle is injured, Caroline takes over as substitute teacher of Walnut Grove School and helps a young boy nicknamed “Dumb Abel” to read. Edwards volunteers to watch the sisters while their parents are gone, he finds the girls, to be more than he can handle. Laura exacts revenge on Nellie during the Ingalls ‘ party.Ĭharles and his daughters surprise Caroline with a romantic holiday. While at a party at Nellie Oleson's, Laura befriends another girl Olga, who has a birth defect causing one leg to be shorter than the other.

Miss Amy is depressed after the death of one of her friends and enlists the help of Doctor Heiram Baker and Charles to fake her death as sh is Certain that only her funeral will bring her distant children and grandchildren to Walnut Grove for a long overdue visit.

A sibling rivalry erupts between the sisters. Laura's unrequited crush on older student Johnny Johnson, is made worse by Johnny’s interest in Mary. Edwards in the midst of a bar fight in Mankato, Charles brings him to Walnut Grove to rehabilitate him. A essay for parents day causes Laura to worry as she cannot write what she wants to say, so she makes a speech instead.Īfter a hailstorm leaves the Ingalls' crops in tatters, Charles must work to recoup the money in a dangerous dynamiting job Mary and Laura begin school and have to deal with difficult new classmates. Harvest Of Friends After moving his family to Minnesota's prairie, pioneer Charles Ingalls settles on farmland by Plum Creek just outside the town of Walnut Grove but encounters difficulties when he tries to acquire the deed to their new farm.

Little house on the prairie book set 1971