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The Caroline Years: A Little House of Their Own
Celia Wilkins
Historical Fiction (Series)
Ages 8 to 12
HarperCollins, 2005, 0-06-027009-8
It is hard to believe but Caroline Quiner, who was a schoolgirl herself not so long ago, is now to be the teacher at the Concord school. It is the very school that she went to just a few months ago and many of the students are her friends. One is even her own sister Eliza. Inwardly quaking, Caroline begins to teach the summer school. Though she faces a few challenges dealing with her students, Caroline soon finds her feet in her new job and better still she finds that she loves being a teacher.
When winter school begins however Caroline wonders if she is going to be able to manage. The large boys who were working on the farms in the summer and fall are now free to go to school and a few of them seem to be determined to make as much trouble as possible. Caroline does not like the idea of having to whip the boys but she begins to wonder if she is going to have choice.
In addition to her new life as a school teacher Caroline is experiencing something else which is new and a little confusing; Caroline is getting fond of a young man. Charles Ingalls used to be a funny boy who liked to play the violin in the woods. Now he is a handsome young man with dreams, and it would appear that he might like to have Caroline at his side when he pursues those dreams.
The final book in the Caroline series, Celia Wilkins presents a fascinating picture of life in a small town in the 1850's. Though Concord, Wisconsin has a school, a store and a church, it is still small and not far from its pioneer roots. Life there can still be hard if Mother Nature decides to be difficult. Fans of the original Little House books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline's daughter, will be interested to read that even as a very young man, Charles Ingalls was talking about going West to lands where there were no trees and lots of open spaces.
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