Age Appropriateness: Primary
Genre: Autobiography
Media: Pencil
Setting: For this particular book, the setting, both time and place, is the basis for everything. The whole story revolves around the time and place where Laura and her family live. The stories that are told in this book really pertain only to that time in history and the culture that she lived in. If the same story was told in today's culture, it would not make sense. It is essential for the reader to understand the setting as the context of this story.
Review: In this book, Laura, the main character tells many stories of her school experiences while growing up on the prairie in the late 1800's. She tells of moving to a town with a school in it, going to her first day of school, learning to read, moving to another town with a school, finding new friends there, and many other adventures that are intertwined in her school experiences. ( )

This is a short collection of some of the stories Laura told about her school days- some from On the Banks of Plum Creek, and some from The Long Winter. This is much shorter than a regular book, and I'm not sure whether the language has been changed to make it easier. The first story is funny and the second is serious. ( )

Lexile: 520
Reading Recovery: 21
DRA: 24
Fountas Pinnel Guided Reading: L