They must leave many of their possessions behind, but Carolina is happy that she can bring her beloved doll, Lydia-Lou. Carolina is perhaps seven or eight in the book when her father decides to sell his farm in New Hampshire and head for Nebraska Territory in the hopes of a better life. Set in the late 1850s, Carolina’s Courage is another going West story. While most of the other books in the box can wait until the girls are old enough to read themselves, I pulled this one out to read together. When I outgrew it (and other YA novels), she lent it to another homeschooling family, who recently returned it to her. This was a book that I read as a child and which my mom actually bought with our homeschool funding. We needed some new books to start reading together, and Carolina’s Courage caught my eye. This summer, we finished Little Town on the Prairie and I decided to stop reading because Laura is now fifteen, starting her first job, and getting courted by Almanzo-grown-up topics for my little girls. I think I started while we were in Alberta last year, because I knew my mom and my mother-in-law both had the books so we could keep reading while traveling. Over the last year, I’ve read most of the Little House on the Prairie books aloud to the girls. North American Martyrs Kids Activity Book.
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