<Tr> <Th> Preceded by </Th> <Td> On the Banks of Plum Creek </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> The Long Winter </Td> </Tr> <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> The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1940, as were the fourth through eighth books in the series . Though Wilder began writing the books as autobiographical recollections, they are considered historical fiction . </P>

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