18 books like Little Town on the Prairie

Cover of On the Banks of Plum Creek
On the Banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1937 · ★ 4.2 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers. Shares Newbery Honor, Frontier and pioneer life, Family life, Family
The Long Winter
The Long Winter Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1940 · ★ 4.4 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Moderate After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather. Shares Newbery Honor, Frontier and pioneer life, Family life, Family
Cover of These Happy Golden Years
These Happy Golden Years Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1943 · ★ 4.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wilder begins to seek her company. Shares Newbery Honor, Frontier and pioneer life, Family life, Family
Cover of Sami and the time of the troubles
Sami and the time of the troubles Florence Parry Heide · 1992 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A ten-year-old Lebanese boy goes to school, helps his mother with chores, plays with his friends, and lives with his family in a basement shelter when bombings occur and fighting begins on his street. Shares Family life, Families, Children's fiction
Cover of The Golly Sisters Go West
The Golly Sisters Go West Betsy Cromer Byars · 1985 · ★ 4.0 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate May-May and Rose, the singing, dancing Golly sisters, travel west by covered wagon, entertaining people along the way. Shares West, Frontier and pioneer life, Children's fiction
Cover of Little House in the Big Woods
Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1932 · ★ 4.2 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The first in a series of truly charming tales of life on the early American frontier, Little House in the Big Woods introduces us to Laura Ingalls, her Ma and Pa, big sister Mary and Baby Carrie. She lives in an isolated cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and spends her days helping Ma with household chores, learning how to care for a house, farm and family. The descriptions of typical… Shares Frontier and pioneer life, Family life, Family, Families
Cover of The Book of the Banshee
The Book of the Banshee Anne Fine · 1991 · ★ 3.5 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Will Flowers doesn't understand what could have happened. His sister, Estelle, used to be really cool. She was quiet, responsible, and most times you'd never even know she was around(which was the cool part). But lately, Estelle has been acting totally weird - to everyone. All she does is get mad and yell. She yells at Mom. She yells at Dad. She even yells at little Muffy. But mostly she yells at… Shares Family life, Family, Families, Children's fiction
Cover of Alice in April
Alice in April Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate While trying to survive seventh grade, Alice discovers that turning thirteen will make her the Woman of the House at home, so she starts a campaign to get more appreciated for taking care of her father and older brother. Shares Family life, Family, Families, Children's fiction
Cover of The outlaws of Mesquite
The outlaws of Mesquite Louis L'Amour · 1990 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Meet the frontier bad men—like Leo Carver—a man so hated that everyone in the town of Canyon Gap planned to turn up for his hanging. Then meet those who dared to challenge them—like Marshal Lou Morgan, who tried to save his citizens from a goldmine swindler, only to learn that his own code of honesty made him the biggest sucker in town. There's champion rodeo rider Marty Mahan, called a coward… Shares West, Frontier and pioneer life
Cover of What I saw and how I lied
What I saw and how I lied Judy Blundell · 2008 · ★ 3.5 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever. Shares Family life, Family, Families, Historical Fiction
Cover of The Wednesday Wars
The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt · 2007 · ★ 4.1 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn’t like Holling—he’s sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam. His father wants… Shares Newbery Honor, Family life, Families, Historical Fiction
Cover of The unforgiven
The unforgiven Alan Le May · 1957 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this epic American novel, which served as the basis for the classic film directed by John Huston, a family is torn apart when an old enemy starts a vicious rumor that sets the range aflame. Shares West, Frontier and pioneer life
Cover of Outcasts of Poker Flat
Outcasts of Poker Flat Bret Harte · 1931 · 45p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Upon waking from their overnight camp in the mountains, four exiles from Poker Flat and a young couple traveling to the town face a snowstorm with limited provisions. Shares West, Frontier and pioneer life, Children's fiction
Cover of The Big Rock Candy Mountain
The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner · 1943 · 563p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune—in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest.Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason… Shares West, Families
The Hostile Trail
The Hostile Trail Charles G. West · 2006 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate BLOODRED RAGE In the winter of 1866, trail partners Matt Slaughter and Brister are hunting elk in the high lonesome of the Bighorn Mountains. But a clash with a Sioux-led by the dreaded Iron Claw-turns the knee-deep red snow red with blood. Only the deadly fire of Matt's Henry rifle-*the feared spirit gun*-gets Ike and him out alive. With Iron Claw raiding any whites using the Bozeman Trail,… Shares Frontier and pioneer life
Vengeance Moon
Vengeance Moon Charles G. West · 2007 · 357p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A fugitive is trapped between a rock and a hard place in this action packed Western from Charles G. West.On the run for a murder he didn’t commit, Matt Slaughter is lying low in the badlands with a new life, and a new woman. But old troubles are right behind him: her name is P.D. Wildmoon, a hard-drinking bounty huntress armed with a .44, a rawhide horsewhip, and three wild-eyed sons bred to… Shares Frontier and pioneer life
Cover of Home as found
Home as found James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 5.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Historical Fiction with this book.
Cover of The silver spoon
The silver spoon John Galsworthy · 1921 · ★ 4.1 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Family, Families with this book.

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