The Shores Of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder [Paperback]

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a classic children's historical novel and the fifth book in the Little House series, portraying the Ingalls family's continuing journey through the American frontier.

After two failed harvests and an outbreak of scarlet fever, which leaves Laura's older sister Mary blind, the Ingalls family decides to leave Plum Creek. Their next destination is Silver Lake, where Pa Ingalls finds work connected with a new railroad.

The family settles near Silver Lake, and Pa discovers an ideal location to build a home. For the first time, it seems possible that the family's years of travelling from place to place may finally come to an end.

The novel portrays pioneer life, family relationships, hardship, adaptation, community, work, and growing up, while giving young readers a picture of nineteenth-century life on the American frontier.