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    <body><![CDATA[Ok so how could I not put my favorite LHOTP book on my bookshelf? I can't. There just ain't better readin' than a little LHOTP. Especially with a little fiddle music in the background while wearing a bonnet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was the first of the Little House books that I read. The last shall be first. I liked it, and all the Little House books (my favorites are Little Town on the Prairie and The Long Winter). While I have to say that I enjoyed them as a child, that's nothing to what I thought of them when I re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18089838">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read the Little House series a number of times now -- nearly always in the winter it seems; perhaps because so much of the books seems to take place when the family is struggling through blizzards and cold weather!  Despite elements that make me occasionally cringe (in the first book, there's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49216233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far my favorite of the series! Laura embarks in her profession of teacher (at the ripe old age of 16). She experiences life away from home (and is fairly miserable but keeps a stiff upper lip) and learns how to deal with unruly students. She relishes in her weekends home and begins to appreciate ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64961593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love all of Laura's books, but if I had to choose a favourite, it would probably be this one. It takes up exactly where &quot;Little Town...&quot; leaves off and describes Laura's life now that she's suddenly a grown-up school teacher. I couldn't imagine teaching school at an age where I still oug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2680922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i guess i read this one to keep going with the series, but it wasn't horrible bad. i guess.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title of this book is fitting.  This one is richly filled with romance and excitement.  I'm glad my girls got to hear what a good courting experience is while they're young.  I don't want to lecture them about proper dating when they're older so I love reading wholesome examples of what love rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33289929">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="75928865">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I'm looking at the library for Swiss Family Robinson (all checked out--thanks guys!) and it's (supposed to be) right next to Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. I read these maybe a million times when I was growing up.  I wanted to BE Laura; her life seemed so cool. I thought it may be interesting to r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75928865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a haze of nostalgia brought on by helping high school students with National History Day projects in the library (several students were research projects on Laura Ingalls Wilder this year), I dug out my box set of Little House books to re-read them. What I remembered about them was reading them o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45343363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second to last of the Little House books, Laura is a teenager in the settlement of De Smet, South Dakota.  She has many new experiences, teaching in different schools and her &quot;beau&quot; Almanzo Wilder.  <br/><br/>I read these books when I was young and am re-reading them with my daughter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40066148">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Olivia:  She saw Almonzo and what I feel sad is that Almonzo went away.  Almonzo had horses and they drived crazy.  I liked that.  <br/><br/>Michelle: is there anything else you'd like to say, Olivia?<br/><br/>Olivia: I love you.<br/><br/>Chloe:  Well I'm happy that Almonzo is in the story and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75577553">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;These Happy Golden Years&quot; is the 8th book in the Little House series.  In the previous book, Laura gets her teaching certificate and so in this book we get to read about her first experiences of teaching school and being out on her own.  Almanzo and Laura get to know each other better  to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57531090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the “Little House the Prairie” Series, Laura Ingalls Wilder shares the story of her life, beginning in her early childhood and continuing through the early years of her married life. In “These Happy Golden Years” (No. 8), Laura finds herself teaching school and being courted by the man wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74492112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice, solid ending (essentially...'The First Four Years' has a lot of mystery in its origins, and whether it's valid as a completion of the Little House series) to a lovely series. At this point, a lot of people's enthusiasm starts to wane as relentless westward migration gives way to sleigh rides...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70152767">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the only &quot;Little House&quot; book that I had never read before and I enjoyed it.  I was interested in the culture of the time period as well as Laura's teaching experiences.  Could you imagine teaching school at 15 with two of your students older than you?  I thought my student teachin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40424312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again, another great Little House book.  This one includes Laura's teaching away from home, staying with the sad Brewsters, and Almanzo picking her up and taking her back, even as she tries to push him away.  It doesn't work, and of course they get engaged and get married.  That happiness is ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46936672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So interesting.  Laura has to board with a frontier family in a two-room shanty in an isolated outpost while she teaches school.  The woman of the house is clearly depressed and incapable of dealing with the loneliness and monotony of frontier life.  Laura is very unsympathetic, but I think it is so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38601947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe we have finished the series!  I read the last one too (The First Four Years), but I don't think it's appropriate to read to Rachael.  It was a completely different style - more of an adult book I thought.  Rachael cried BIG tears when she found out we had only one chapter left.  We h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73970351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the one book of the series I probably read less than any of the others - but I can't think what the reason was.  Of course, she's miserable at the Brewsters, but on the other hand, we get to see Almanzo's dedication to her, a renewed appreciation for her happy family and what a capable teach...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45823406">more...</a>]]></body>
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