Book Review by Kourtney
Book Title: By the Shores of Silver Lake
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Year Published: 1939
Characters in the Book: Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura, Carrie, Grace, Jack, and Aunt Docia
Short Summary: Now the Ingalls family is moving to the Dakota Territory. They now live in the town called Desmet. Now Pa starts building a town for anybody that wants to come live with them because they are the only people that live in Desmet.
Good Part: When Laura is down by Silver Lake, she sees wolves and the wolves see her so she starts running and the wolves chase after her. Luckily Pa was coming to get her and he had his gun with him for any unexpected visitors. Pa sees Laura running for her life and then he looks the other way and he sees the wolves so he takes his gun and shoots the wolves. Then Laura was safe and very afraid but she got over it. She kept thanking Pa for saving her life.

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