A good friend and I are doing a reread of the whole Little House series this summer. I first read this book in 3rd grade, and it's a much quicker read as an adult. Being from the midwest, when I read that the town they traveled to is Pepin, Wisconsin on Lake Pepin I get a little thrill because I've been to Lake Pepin many, many times. Life was so much simpler yet harder then, it's a great peak into how things used to be.