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  • These Happy Golden Years

  • Little House, Book 8
  • By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Narrated by: Cherry Jones
  • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (1,170 ratings)

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These Happy Golden Years

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
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Publisher's summary

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty 12 miles from home. She is very homesick but keeps at it so that she can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at the college for the blind. During school vacations Laura has fun with her singing lessons, going on sleigh rides, and, best of all, helping Almanzo Wilder drive his new buggy. Friendship soon turns to love for Laura and Almanzo in the romantic conclusion of this Little House book.

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts.

©1943, 1971 Little House Heritage Trust (P)2006, 2016 HarperCollins Publishers
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Great book

I read these books as a child. So glad to have it on Audible.

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Special & Sentimental

Our family listened with joy to this book narrated by amazingly talented Cherry Jones who again brought this sweet real story to life for our family. The Ingalls and the Wilders were real families and we feel privileged they shared their stories with us thru the eyes of Laura Ingalls Wilder. God bless them and each generation that reads this series. This series filled us with a renewed hope and joy for life, love, marriage, children, and on and on.

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Wonderful and yeah it is only a small small book in a big world

Wonderful I can’t get enough of it I have listened to the last few ones at least three times now no matter what age it’s Going to please any person old or young

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The stories you read.

The stories you read as a child become a part of your personal history in a way that no other stories can. This is that story for me for me. Excellently red fairly sung.

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So Good

LOVE it so much it is amazing it’s my favourite book in this series loved it so much

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Best book yet.

I loved this book so much!
We’re so glad we found the book! -willa rose

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I love the narrators voice and the sweet story

I listened to this with my two boys of 8 and 6 and the both loved it.

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Very enjoyable

I love the narrator for all of the Little house books. She is perfect

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My only complaint was that it wasn’t longer

So much time was covered in this book. So many milestones reached. I feel this could have been made into a few books with more details, however for the most part it didn’t feel rushed. This one had me laughing, scared, happy, crying... name an emotion it was covered. I love each of these books so much, but this is one of my favorites.
As usual Cherry does well with the story, but could use have a little more difference between characters.
Over all I just wish it was longer!

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AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING

I turning 11 on 7/21/2022 and I have had this book for years and I HAVE AND STILL DO LOVE IT 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓 it is a very good combination of the realistic struggles of life to get money and make a living and a dream like romance story

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