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Genre Group Read (Humour) - December 2016 - You Are Not So Smart
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Alternate Group Read (Classics) - December 2016 - Mansfield Park
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I own all of the Little House books, and adored Melissa Gilbert in the TV series. My favorite of all of Wilders' memoirs is Little House in the Big Woods, which is the first in the series and the "pre-quel" to Little House on the Prairie. The writing of Little House on the Prairie is descriptive and makes me feel as though I was travelling in the wagon with Laura and her family. The book tells the tale of the Ingalls family moving from Wisconsin to Minnesota in a horse drawn wagon. I give all pi
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4.5 stars. I loved this tale of the Ingalls family's move from Wisconsin to Kansas. It continued my education about the historical time period as well as all of the amazing homesteading tasks that were undertaken by the family as a regular course of their year. I did not appreciate Caroline Ingalls in this volume as I found her disturbingly racist with regard to the indigenous peoples, but I do understand that the story was supposed to be written true to her character. I enjoyed the fact that Ch
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Feb 25, 2012
Jenny
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
historical-fiction,
childrens-lit
Jul 22, 2014
Lauren Jenkins
rated it
it was amazing
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Shelves:
absolute-faves
