"The Legend of Lucy Whipple" (1849) is written by Karen Cushman. In this, the mother, after losing her husband, moves to the west, to make her living by providing a boarding house to the miners, with her children. But her eldest, Lucy is reluctant & is fond of books & reading. But she reluctantly goes along & helps her mother. When her mother decides to remarry an itinerant preacher & missionary & decides to move to Sandwich Islands, Lucy decides to stay back & start a library to educate the miners' children, continuing the work of Benjamin Franklin who started circulating libraries in USA in 1731.
"The Little House in the Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932). In this novel, set in the 1870's in Wisconsin, Laura & her family, consisting of her parents & two sisters, settled in the wilderness, where they had to be completely self-sufficient. Bears & wolves were always prowling around & Laura learned to handle guns while still very young. They lived by hunting & limited agriculture. The arrival of a hired mechanical horse-operated thresher was an event. How the family cheerfully thrived under these harsh conditions is described in detail in the book. It was followed by numerous sequels.
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