These Happy Golden Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Garth Williams • Book 8 of the Little House Books Series
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- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 1943
Word Count 63,345
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 840L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 497, 10 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Frontier and pioneer life--Great Plains--Fiction
- Frontier and pioneers life
- Great Plains--Juvenile fiction
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957--Fiction
- Family life--Great Plains--Fiction
- Family life
- Teachers
- Frontier and pioneer life--South Dakota--Fiction
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957--Juvenile fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Great Plains--Fiction
- Family life--South Dakota--Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Teachers--Fiction
- Wilder, Almanzo
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Frontier and pioneer life--Great Plains--Juvenile fiction
- Families--Great Plains--Juvenile fiction
- South Dakota--Fiction
- Courtship--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century
- Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles | Farm Life & Ranch Life
- Juvenile Fiction | Classics
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John Newbery Medal, 1922-2023
Honor, 1944
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