About the Book: By the Shores of Silver Lake
It is time for Laura Ingalls and her family to leave Plum Creek after two poor
harvests and an outbreak of scarlet fever, which has left her sister Mary blind.
Pa Ingalls finds a job on a new railroad and the family head out West to Silver
Lake. Settling in to Silver Lake, Pa finds the perfect place to build a house
and it seems as though the Ingalls travelling days may be over. "Stock up,
hunker down and enjoyLucy Mangan, Guardian).
About the Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the