On the Banks of the Bayou (Little House)

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Summary: This is a wonderful continuation of Rose's Life Story.
Review: It was a great joy to read this to my son in continuation of the series about Rose Wilder Lane (the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) and her formative years. I understand there will be one more final book in this series. Is there any news about what its title will be and when it will be published? I can't wait for more and am sad that this is almost all that is available to read about Rose's life.

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Summary: My favorite Rose book
Review: ON THE BANKS OF THE BAYOU is a delight. It is the best of all the Rose books. Rose goes to a Louisiana academy, taking up her aunt's offer. She stays with her aunt, and slowly realizies that she is for womens' rights. She crusades with her aunt to help boost voting for women, and along the way she learns Latin and learns about Lousiana with a new Cajun friend, Odette, and her huge family. It is fun and inspirational, but Rose also learns the horrible truth of slavery and segregation in full. When she eats at an ice-cream parlor under cooling fans, she watches a black girl pay at a special window and sit on a dingy chair in the blazing sun. Rose learns more than Latin, Algebra, and geography. She learns what it is to live in the world.

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Summary: Good book about Rose Wilder.
Review: This book, the seventh about Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, Rose, was good. In it, Rose goes to live with her aunt Eliza Jane in Crowley, Louisiana, for almost a year so she can attend high school. Rose has many experiances in Louisiana. She meets a Cajun girl and her family, and goes to a traditional Mardi Gras party. She learns about the terrible racial predjudices of the turn of the century south, and joins the causes of rights for both women and workers. I highly reccomend this book.

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Summary: Got a Lot from this Book
Review: This is definitely one of my fave books(i'm 14). I think I first read this book when I was 9 or 10, but I wasn't mature enough to really get all of it yet. Rose is definitly growing up, separating from her mother, making good and bad friends, falling in love, taking big risks and thinking about her future. Frankly she is dying to ditch her boring, ordinary life in her small Ozarks town, but she also has to decide what she is going to do about Paul, her first love, who is gone most of the time. Basically it is a coming-of-age story set in small-town turn-of-the-century America. I liked it especially for the historical value, and would recommend it to anyone who liked the Laura books, or likes historical fiction for young adults. ...