(3) 4-6 Little House: The Caroline Years series. Illustrated by Dan Andreasen. Seventeen-year-old Caroline wants to stay in her hometown of Concord, Wisconsin, to pursue a teaching career. So when she begins a courtship with her old neighbor, Charles Ingalls, who longs to move west, she faces a serious life-altering decision. The gentle, old-fashioned story provides a believable look at pioneer life and a satisfying conclusion to the series.

Reviewer: Anne St. John

(3) 4-6 Little House: The Caroline Years series. Illustrated by Dan Andreasen. Eleven-year-old Caroline and her family attend the first Wisconsin state fair, house the new schoolteacher, and meet their neighbors in the newest installment in the Little House saga. Caroline's experiences and feelings will resonate with readers, who will also be pleased to see a young, fiddle-playing Charlie Ingalls enter the story.

Reviewer: Anne St. John

(4) 4-6 Little House: The Caroline Years series. In this continuation of the series about the childhood of Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, young Caroline helps her widowed mother with her job of feeding a crew of coarse, rude men after a storm ruins the first crops from their new farm. Although Wilkes's book lacks the vitality of Wilder's autobiographical tales, readers who long for more about the Little House clan will enjoy the novel.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.