These Happy Golden Years Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura, not yet sixteen, takes a job teaching school in a drafty shanty 12 miles from home. It's a terrifying job. Most of her pupils are taller than she is--and she has to board with a hateful, crazed lady. Laura is miserable, but she must help to keep her blind sister, Mary in school. Every Friday Almanzo arrives in his sleigh to take her h... more »ome to her family for the weekend. Could it be love?« less