David Hooks

The Ingalls, Garveys and Olesons have trouble with city life; Charles tries to reform Albert.

The Ingalls move from financially troubled Walnut Grove to the busy town of Winoka.

Laura befriends a classmate named Amelia Bevins, who is ashamed of her obese father. When the man realizes how much pain he is causing his wife and daughter, he leaves them temporarily for a "business trip" that will change their family forever.

Mr. Edwards is determined the carnival owner will not regain custody of the mute boy.

Adam proposes to Mary, and they plan a wedding in Winoka. Charles and Caroline cannot afford to send the whole family to the event, so they are forced to make the trip by themselves. All seems to be going great until Mary, who fears that she and her Adam can never be proper parents, calls the whole thing off.

Townspeople rescue a mute boy whom a carnival owner has been using as an attraction.