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Melissa Wiley

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in Alamogordo, NM, The United States

December 17

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Melissa Wiley is the author of The Nerviest Girl in the World, The Prairie Thief, Fox and Crow Are Not Friends, the Inch and Roly series, the Martha and Charlotte Little House books, and other books for kids. Melissa has been blogging about her family’s reading life and tidal homeschooling adventures at Here in the Bonny Glen since 2005. She is @melissawiley on Twitter and @melissawileybooks on Instagram. ...more

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	Little House in the Highlands (Little House: The Martha Years, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 7,614 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Heather Hills (Little House: The Martha Years, #4) by Melissa Wiley (Goodreads Author), Renée Graef (Illustrator) 3.95 avg rating — 3,049 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little House by Boston Bay (Little House: The Charlotte Years, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 2,757 ratings — published 1999 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Tide Mill Lane (Little House: The Charlotte Years, #2) by Melissa Wiley (Goodreads Author), Dan Andreasen (Illustrator) 4.12 avg rating — 2,093 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Far Side of the Loch (Little House: The Martha Years, #2) by Melissa Wiley (Goodreads Author), Renée Graef 4.11 avg rating — 2,026 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down to the Bonny Glen (Little House: The Martha Years, #3) by Melissa Wiley (Goodreads Author), Renée Graef (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 1,599 ratings — published 2001 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road from Roxbury (Little House: The Charlotte Years, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 1,512 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Across the Puddingstone Dam (Little House: The Charlotte Years, #4) by Melissa Wiley (Goodreads Author), Dan Andreasen (Illustrator) 4.12 avg rating — 1,370 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prairie Thief by Melissa Wiley (Goodreads Author), Erwin Madrid (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 1,288 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nerviest Girl in the World 4.07 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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An April beginning

Cherry blossoms, Portland Oregon, April 2023

Not long after I resumed regular blogging here, our lives skittered sideways again: we learned that our landlord is going to sell this house and wouldn’t be renewing the lease. He gave us a generous six months’ notice and the right of first refusal on buying the house, but (long story short) we couldn’t make that work and we wound up buying a less expensive house not far away.

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Series by Melissa Wiley

Little House: The Martha Years (4 books)
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Melissa Wiley (Goodreads Author),

Renée Graef (Illustrator)

4.03 avg rating — 14,288 ratings

Little House: The Charlotte Years (4 books)
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Melissa Wiley (Goodreads Author),

Dan Andreasen (Illustrator)

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Inch and Roly (3 books)
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Melissa Wiley (Goodreads Author),

Ag Jatkowska (Illustrator)

3.58 avg rating — 219 ratings

Inch and Roly, #3 (1 book)
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Melissa Wiley (Goodreads Author),

Ag Jatkowska (Illustrator)

3.57 avg rating — 56 ratings

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Slow Your Roll: Ruminations & Reflections On My Walk Across Spain

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I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

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“I ain't the kind o' person who turns up her nose at what's served her, just cause it ain't something else. I ate what the Almighty served me, and filled it up just fine. Eat what you're served, child, and season it any way you like. You do that and you'll get along all right.”
― Melissa Wiley, Across the Puddingstone Dam

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“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.”
― Melissa Wiley, The Prairie Thief

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“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
― George Washington

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“Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three, even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. (What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.)”
― Nick Hornby, More Baths Less Talking

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