These happy golden years Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura not yet sixteen, takes a job teaching school in a drafty shanty twelve miles from home. Its a terrifying job. Most of her pupils are taller than she is-and she has to board witha a hateful, crazed lady. Laura is miserable, but she must help to keep her blind sister Mary in school. And every Friday, when the school week is over, Almonzo... more » arrives in his sleigh-come all twelve miles across the desolate icy slough to take her home to her family for the weekend. Could it be love?« less