Wings to Fly - Softcover
In Ticket to Curlew, Sam Ferrier and his family moved to Canada and learned to respect their harsh new home and find beauty in its endless prairies. In this sequel, 11-year-old Josie, now well-settled in her new home, longs to have a friend her own age. So when a girl named Margaret moves to the area from England, Josie is thrilled to have a buddy for riding to school, exploring the mysterious, abandoned silver house, and dreaming about the future.
But what does the future hold for a young girl in 1918? Could Josie fly airplanes like her heroine Katherine Stinson? Will she be a teacher like Miss Barnett? What if she becomes like Margaret’s sad mother, who can’t bear to even unpack her fine English china in the crude sod house that is her new prairie home? Wings to Fly tells the powerful and poignant story of a young girl facing her future in the dramatic Canadian wilderness.
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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.
Review:
[An] exceptional story. (Children's Bookwatch 2000-01-01)
It is fact, as much as fiction, that makes Wings to Fly so rich. (Globe and Mail 2000-01-01)
Lottridge...reminds us that some of life's sweetest moments are not the ones we plot out, but the ones we stumble over. (Toronto Star 2000-01-01)
It is fact, as much as fiction, that makes Wings to Fly so rich. (Globe and Mail 2000-01-01)
Lottridge...reminds us that some of life's sweetest moments are not the ones we plot out, but the ones we stumble over. (Toronto Star 2000-01-01)
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- PublisherGroundwood Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0888998449
- ISBN 13 9780888998446
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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