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3.5 stars
I read this a couple times as a little kid a very long time ago. I found it a tad slow then.
Laura is about 6-7 here. The family leaves Wisconsin and heads off into Kansas. They pick a random spot and build a house. The first half of the book is building the house (a log cabin)—the walls, roof, floor, chimney, etc. (I’m sure an outhouse was built in there somewhere.) People today will look at all this in shock at how unsafe everything is. People back then were like, “danger, shmanger.”
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I read this a couple times as a little kid a very long time ago. I found it a tad slow then.
Laura is about 6-7 here. The family leaves Wisconsin and heads off into Kansas. They pick a random spot and build a house. The first half of the book is building the house (a log cabin)—the walls, roof, floor, chimney, etc. (I’m sure an outhouse was built in there somewhere.) People today will look at all this in shock at how unsafe everything is. People back then were like, “danger, shmanger.”
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