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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Laura, Mary, Wilder entitled Little Town on the Prairie?
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conversations.value: Little Town on the Prairie: One day at supper, Pa asks Laura whether she will accept a job in town helping to sew shirts; the surge in people newly arrived in town means a need for services such as this.\nLaura hates the work, but continues because the money will help send her sister Mary to a college for the blind in Iowa.\nOn the Fourth of July, Laura, Carrie and Pa walk to town to attend the celebration.\nThe men organize horse races, and Laura's future husband, Almanzo Wilder, wins the buggy race with his two Morgan horses hitched to his brother's heavy peddler's wagon.\nOn the homestead, the family's crops of corn and oats are doing well, and Pa plans to sell them to pay for Mary to begin college that fall.\nIn the summer, blackbirds descend and destroy both crops.\nLaura and Mary resign themselves that Mary will have to wait, but Pa sells one of their cows to make up the amount and Mary gets ready to go after all.\nWhen Ma and Pa escort Mary to the college, Laura, Carrie, and Grace are left alone for a week.\nIn order to stave off the loneliness stemming from Mary's departure, Laura, Carrie, and Grace do the fall cleaning; they succeed despite a few mishaps, surprising Ma and Pa when they return.\nIn the fall, the Ingalls move to town for the winter; they believe the coming winter will not be as hard as the previous one, but as the claim shanty is not weatherproofed, Pa thinks it is best not to risk staying in it.\nIn town, Laura and Carrie attend school again, and Laura is reunited with her friends Minnie Johnson and Mary Power.\nShe also meets a new girl, Ida Brown, the adopted daughter of the town's new minister, Reverend Brown, who claims to be related to John Brown of Kansas.\nNellie Oleson, her nemesis from Plum Creek, has moved to De Smet and is also attending the school.\nThe teacher for the fall term is Eliza Jane Wilder, Almanzo's older sister, who has a nearby claim of her own.\nNellie turns Miss Wilder against Laura and Miss Wilder loses control of the school for a time.\nA visit by the school board restores order; however, Miss Wilder leaves at the end of the fall term.\nFor the winter term, Miss Wilder is replaced by mr Clewett.\nLaura sets herself to studying, as she only has one year left before she can apply for a teaching certificate, but can relax when the town of De Smet begins having literary meetings at the schoolhouse, where the whole town gathers for fun every Friday night: singing, elocution, a spelling bee, or plays and minstrel shows put on by the townspeople.\nThe winter is very mild, so Laura and Carrie never miss a day of school.\nLaura and her classmates become friendly after a birthday party for Ben Woodworth, and so Laura begins lagging in her studies, though she remains head of the class.\nLaura spends the summer studying to make up for lost time.\nThe next school year, there is another new teacher, mr Owen.\nDuring a week of church revival meetings, Almanzo Wilder asks to escort Laura home from church.\nMa is surprised at this because Laura is only fifteen, and Almanzo is a grown man.\nNear Christmas, mr Owen organizes a school exhibition to raise awareness of the school's needs, as the school is becoming overcrowded.\nmr Owen assigns Laura and her friend Ida Brown the duty of reciting the whole of American history up to that point.\nDespite their nervousness, on the night of the school exhibition Laura and Ida perform perfectly, as does Carrie, who recites a poem.\nAlmanzo once again sees Laura home, and offers to take her on a sleigh ride after he completes the cutter he is building.\nAt home, Laura is met by mr Boast and mr Brewster, who saw Laura perform at the exhibition and want her to take a teaching position at Brewster's settlement twelve miles (19\xa0km) from town.\nThe school superintendent comes and tests Laura; although she is not yet sixteen, he grants her a third-grade teaching certificate.\nThe book ends with Laura preparing to teach school.