Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This might actually be my favorite of all the Little House books. Somehow I missed out on this one as a kid, and skipped straight from The Long Winter to These Happy Golden Years. But Little Town really fills in some of the blanks for me - how Laura went from an innocent little girl to a grown woman teaching school and engaged. This book is by far the most revealing about Laura's "rebellious" (relatively speaking) teen years, and is the only book in the series that mentions things like corsets and goes into detail about the limitations on women's hairstyles and behaviour at that time. Plus, it ends on a bit of a cliffhanger, which none of the previous books do - and now I have to go reread These Happy Golden Years for the dozenth time just to connect all the dots.
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