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Analysis Of Little Town On The Prairie By Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little town on the prairie is a book written by a person named Laura Ingalls Wilder. The book little town on the prairie is 308 pages and is about Laura how she grew up and help her sister got to college. In the beginning of the book Laura sister, Mary want to go to college for the blind. Laura want to help her family get the ones to send her off to college. Laura gets a job in town sewing shirts for a store. She make 9 dollars and helps pay for Mary's cloths. Laura also study's hard to become a school teacher. She is 15 years old and when she turns 16 she can get a teachers degree. In the middle of the book Laura is getting board of school and studying. Laura and her little sister Carrie go into town to go to a fourth of july party

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