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. It's a terrifying job. Most of her pupils are taller than she is. Laura is miserable but she must help to keep her blind sister, Mary, in school. And every friday, when the school week is over, Almanzo arrives in his sleigh to take her home to her ... more »family for the weekend. Could it be love?« less