After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

Laura helps out on the family farms in the Big Woods and on the prairie.

Describes the sights and events a frontier family encounters travelling from South Dakota to the Ozarks.

"Follows the Ingalls family's journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory, [examining] sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder's fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and other sources, ... Wilder biographer Pamela Smith Hill adds ... context and leads readers through Wilder's growth...

Laura tries to get even with Nellie, the meanest girl in school. Adapted from "On the Banks of Plum Creek", by Laura Ingalls Wilder.