The House by Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Pa, Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie and baby Grace moves from the House on Plum Creek to the prairies, where a railway is being built. Pa works as a bookkeeper for the railway company, Ma and the children keeps the shanty. When winter comes they spend it in a railway house next to the lake. In the spring they see the town spring up from the empty prairie before they move out to their homestead.