Ticket to Curlew

by Celia Barker Lottridge

Book Overview

Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People It is 1915, and Sam Ferrier and his father arrive by train in Curlew, Alberta, to build a new home for the family. When they finally reach their parcel of land, Sam can see nothing but endless stretches of grassland and blue sky. It is nothing like their old home in Iowa, and he wonders why his restless father ever decided to bring the family to this lonely, barren land. In time, though, the house is built, and the rest of the family joins them. Gradually Sam discovers that there is much more to the flat and featureless prairie than he realized -- gleaming white skulls, torrential thunderstorms and, best of all, a new friend and a brave, resourceful horse named Prince.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888998430
• ISBN13: 9780888998439
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

True story of a boy homesteading on the prairies of Alberta

Ticket to Curlew is a lovely story of Sam Ferrier, a young boy who homesteads on the Alberta prairie. It is a simple, fresh story. We loved it.