By the Shores of Silver Lake (Audio book)

America's Original Pioneer Girl

Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.
Pa Ingalls heads west to the unsettled wilderness of the Dakota Territory. When Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and baby Grace join him, they become the first settlers in the town of DeSmet. And Pa begins work on the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the shores of Silver Lake. By the Shores of Silver Lake is the fifth book in the Laura Years series.

About the author

Cherry Jones won the Tony^® Award for best actress for both The Heiress and Doubt, and received two Tony^® nominations for her work in A Moon for the Misbegotten and Our Country's Good; she can be seen in the films The Perfect Storm, Erin Brockovich, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and Cold Mountain.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the log cabin described in Little House in the Big Woods, and she and her family traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. As an adult she wrote down the stories of her pioneer childhood in her classic Little House books, which have been cherished by millions of readers ever since they were first published over ninety years ago.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wilder Laura Ingalls
• Assisted by: Cherry Jones (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 01.10.2004
• EAN: 9780060565015
• ISBN: 978-0-06-056501-5
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 140 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 181 g
• Illustrations: digital
• Series: Little House
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature; Christmas, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, United States of America, USA, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Holidays and celebrations, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, JUVENILE FICTION: Classics, JUVENILE FICTION: Lifestyles / Farm & Ranch Life, JUVENILE FICTION: Historical / United States / 20th Century, JUVENILE FICTION: Girls & Women, JUVENILE FICTION: Family / Multigenerational, JUVENILE FICTION: Biographical / United States, JUVENILE FICTION: Historical / United States / 19th Century, JUVENILE FICTION: Family / Marriage & Divorce