Lottridge, Celia Barker Ticket to Curlew ISBN 13: 9780888998439

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It is 1915. Endless stretches of grassland against a boundless sky are all Sam Ferrier sees when he and his father arrive in Curlew, Alberta, to build a new house for their family. He wonders why his restless father would move them to this lonely, barren place, so different from Iowa. But after the house gets built and the family joins them, Sam gradually discovers that there is much more to the prairie than he realized. The tall grasses hide a mysterious collection of gleaming white skulls. Torrential thunderstorms appear with startling swiftness out of a clear-blue sky. And when one day he finds that his little brother has suddenly disappeared, Sam discovers that this new land can be both awesome and terrifying. Young readers join the Ferriers as they learn to survive the prairie's brutal winters and devastating isolation and as Sam makes new friends with a brave and resourceful horse named Prince.

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Canadian Literary Association Book of the Year Award
Geoffrey Bilson Historical Fiction Award
IBBY Honour List

He figured he had walked about a mile and the tent was just a little bump far behind him when he saw something whte gleaming through the grass up ahead. He couldn't imagine what it was. Pure whtie and smooth. Bigger than a bucket.

Sam walked faster. Was it a stone? Out here a white stone would seem strange and foreign as a seashell.

But it wasn't a stone. It was a skull. The huge skull of an animal. An animal with horns. Like a bull, but not quite like a bull.

Suddenly Sam knew. It was a buffalo skull.

When Sam Ferrier first stands on the prairie land his father has bought from the railroad, there is nothing to see but grass and sky. It is 1915 and the Ferriers are the first settlers to come to this stretch of country. But 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.

CELIA BARKER LOTTRIDGE has won international recognition for her many children's books, including Wings to Fly, the sequel to Ticket to Curlew. She lives in Toronto, where she is writing a third book about the Ferrier family.
About the Author:
Celia Barker Lottridge is a writer and storyteller who has written several highly acclaimed children's books, including Ticket to Curlew (winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Historical Fiction Award), Berta: A Remarkable Dog (nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award, Horn Book starred review) and Stories from the Life of Jesus (Publishers Weekly starred review). She wrote Home Is Beyond the Mountains after hearing her mother's stories about growing up in Persia and after reading letter's written by Celia's aunt, Susan Shedd. Born in Iowa and raised in the United States, Celia now lives in Toronto.

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  • PublisherGroundwood Books
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 0888998430
  • ISBN 13 9780888998439
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number2
  • Number of pages144
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