By the Shores of Silver Lake[BY THE SHORES OF SILVER LAKE][Hardcover]

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

By the Shores of Silver Lake <> Hardcover <> LauraIngallsWilder <> HarperCollinsPublishers

Hardcover

Published November 30, 1953

About the author

Ingalls wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood growing up in a pioneer family. She also wrote a regular newspaper column and kept a diary as an adult moving from South Dakota to Missouri, the latter of which has been published as a book.

Reviews

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s so fun to reread one of my childhood favorites.
It’s a completely different experience when reading from an adult perspective.
The Ingalls family deals with the dangers of a town being built, living forty miles from their nearest neighbor during the winter, wolves, and rough, dangerous men.

[Brittany · Rating 3 out of 5]

By the Shores of Silver Lake is the story about the Ingalls family helping to build a brand new town and the process of claiming their own homestead. A lot has happened since the last book, such a new member of the family, Grace, has been born and the family contracted scarlet fever that left Mary blind. PA gets a job offer to work to work in a story for the railroad and then one of the saddest parts of the entire book takes place. Jack the dog dies. Laura is now 13 years old and is facing the reality of being more responsible for the domestic labor of the home. This story does show more of the nuance of how the west was being settled and the progress being made to for the country to expand. There are a lot more tragedy and difficulties in this book. It was very interesting to see this time period through the eyes of a teenager that actually lived it.