By The Shores of Silver Lake

The Beauty of Silver Lake

The beginning of the book was sad because everybody got sick and then everybody got better and all the sickness went to Mary’s eyes. Then Jack died! I cried when Jack died.  And then they had to go on a train ride. They were going west to the shores of Silver Lake.

Laura and her cousin Lena went horseback riding. I wish I could. WithOUT the back things for the horses and they had to hold on to his mane (or her mane).

Mr and Mrs Boast, the Boast family, moved in to their house. It was great, it was wonderful. She taught them how to make a corner whatnot. It’s a shelf that goes in the corner.

Pa put trees and then Grace got lost. They found her in a big huge place with daisies and daises and daises or whatever flowers they were. The end.

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder



The characters are Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mary, Carrie, Ma, Pa, and the good old bulldog Jack. We met a new character in the story. I don't know what his name is. We'll just call him "Boy" he said "snipes!snipes! snipes!" Nellie Olsen is always bragging like about her pretty coat. The teacher was kind. Laura and Mary never went to school before.

The setting was mostly in their house and the school and the church, on the prairie, in the water. Laura and Mary got to sleep in the attic.

They didn't have much. They were poor and they are real if you tell me!! The wheat died because the grasshoppers came. They were eating the wheat. Pa needed the wheat to sell so they could have the money.

There were problems in the winter time because there was a big storm and they put in all the wood! Pa couldn't get back. He was so hungry! He ate all the Christmas candy.

Pa came back. Pa walked one hundred miles to get a job if you tell me! And he gots hundreds and thousands of money!

The doll, her loving true doll, she didn't like that doll but she wanted it. Then Ma said to give it to her and Laura wasn't really happy about that. And then one day when Laura got the mail she saw that Anna had thrown her away and took her one eye off and so she put it in a mud puddle to drown. Laura Ingalls got her up and brought her to Ma and Ma said I'll fix her up. And then she put it all back in her box. And that was the end of that story.