On the Way Home
{{Infobox book 
| name          = On the Way Home
| image         = File:On the Way Home cover.jpg
| caption       = Front dustjacket, first edition
| author        = Laura Ingalls Wilder
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = 
| country       = United States

| series        = 
| genre         = Diary, children's literature
| subject       = Family migration, frontier life
| publisher     = Harper & Row
| pub_date      = November 12, 1962
| media_type    = Print (hardcover)
| pages         = 101 pp.
| isbn          = 
| oclc          = 317883683
| congress      = F598 .W54
| preceded_by   = The First Four Years (fiction)
| followed_by   = West From Home
}}On the Way Home is the diary of an American farm wife, Laura Ingalls Wilder, during her 1894 migration with husband Almanzo Wilder and seven-year-old daughter Rose from De Smet, South Dakota, to Mansfield, Missouri, where they settled permanently.

It provides detailed, daily description of the family's migration and includes commentary by Rose – "a setting by Rose Wilder Lane". It was published in 1962, after Laura's death, by Harper & Bros., who had published her Little House series of novels.On the Way Home'' is sometimes considered part of the Little House series, which is narrowly a series of nine autobiographical children's novels based on Wilder's life from about 1870 to 1894 in South Dakota, ages about three to 27.