Gillian Grant

Laura resigns from her teaching position when she is forced to integrate French and art appreciation into the curriculum. Mrs. Oleson takes over the position and begins to altar the classroom instruction, while Laura struggles to accept her role as a full time housewife. The students, meanwhile, are frustrated with their new teacher and hatch a plan to get things back to normal.

To sharpen writing skills and increase cultural awareness in her classroom, Laura arranges for her students to correspond with children from other areas. Albert connects immediately with his pen pal, but as it turns out, they are both going to unhealthy lengths to impress each other in their letters.

Percival takes over the family business when his father dies, which means that he and Nellie will remain in New York permanently. Distraught by the news, Harriet and Nels decide that adopting a little girl would make them happy, but when they visit the orphanage, Harriet gravitates to the most unruly. Meanwhile, Adam struggles to make a living as a lawyer in Walnut Grove.

Newlyweds Laura and Almanzo have been having some relatively harmless arguments lately, but it reaches a whole new level when Laura suspects that he's cheating on her, then decides to leave him. Elsewhere, Charles is the proud owner of a beautiful new glass window, but installing it is a little more challenging than he anticipated.

Percival takes over the family business when his father dies, which means that he and Nellie will remain in New York permanently. Distraught by the news, Harriet and Nels decide that adopting a little girl would make them happy, but when they visit the orphanage, Harriet gravitates to the most unruly. Meanwhile, Adam struggles to make a living as a lawyer in Walnut Grove.