By The Shores Of Silver Lake

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

From the back cover:

America's Original Pioneer Girl

Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House Books.

Pa Ingalls heads west to the unsettled wilderness of the Dakota Territory.  When Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and baby Grace join him, they become the first settlers in the town of De Smet.  And Pa begins to work on the first building in what will soon be a brand new town on the shores of Silver Lake.

By The Shores of Silver Lake is the fith book in the Laura Years series.

This book won the Newberry Honor in 1940.  I own this one and I used to love the television series as a child.