<P> By the Shores of Silver Lake is an autobiographical children 's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1939 , the fifth of nine books in her Little House series . It spans just over one year , beginning when she is 12 years old and her family moves from Plum Creek , Minnesota to what will become De Smet , South Dakota . </P>
<P> By the Shores of Silver Lake is an autobiographical children 's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1939 , the fifth of nine books in her Little House series . It spans just over one year , beginning when she is 12 years old and her family moves from Plum Creek , Minnesota to what will become De Smet , South Dakota . </P>
where does by the shores of silver lake take place
where does by the shores of silver lake take place
De Smet , South Dakota
De Smet , South Dakota