Download or read book A Ticket to Curlew by Celia Barker Lottridge written by Glen Huser and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ticket to Curlew by Celia Barker Lottridge written by Lottridge, Celia B. (Celia Barker) and published by Grates Cove, Nf. : F & D Teaching Aids. This book was released on 1999 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ticket to Curlew written by Celia Barker Lottridge and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He figured he had walked about a mile and the tent was just a little bump far behind him when he saw something white gleaming through the grass up ahead. He couldn't imagine what it was. Pure white and smooth. Bigger than a bucket. Sam walked faster. Was it stone? Out here a white stone would seem as strange and as 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. It was a buffalo skull.
Download or read book Ticket to Curlew written by Celia Barker Lottridge and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Ticket to Curlew Lit Link Gr 4 6 written by Ruth Solski and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ferrier family traveled from Iowa, USA, by train to Curlew, Alberta. Sam Ferrier made many new discoveries and experienced exciting adventures as he explored their prairie farm. Novel by Celia Barker Lottridge. Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross curricular activities, complete with answer key. 86 pages.
Download or read book Wings to Fly written by Celia Barker Lottridge and published by Groundwood Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Years have passed since the Ferriers moved to Curlew and built a homestead in the Alberta prairie. Eleven-year-old Josie is glad when a new girl her age moves to the area - someone to go to school with, explore an abandoned house and dream about the future. A sequel to the award-winning 'Ticket to Curlew'" Cf. Our choice, 1997-1998
Download or read book A Ticket to Curlew written by Celia Barker Lottridge and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home is Beyond the Mountains written by Celia Lottridge and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.
Download or read book The Listening Tree written by Celia Barker Lottridge and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ellen and her mother board with Aunt Gladys in the city, Ellen finds comfort in the old tree near her window, and realizes she must overcome her fears of the outside world when she overhears a disturbing plot.
Download or read book One Watermelon Seed written by Celia Lottridge and published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max and Josephine plant one watermelon seed, two pumpkins, three eggplants, four peppers, five tomatoes, six blueberry bushes, seven strawberry plants, eight beans, nine potatoes, and ten corn seeds in their garden.
Download or read book TICKET TO CURLEW NOVEL STUDY Gr 4 8 written by Sheila Winnick and published by Rainbow Horizons Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students gain insights and knowledge of the immigration experience to the Canadian prairies in the early 1900's with the study of this novel. The harsh life of settlers on the Canadian prairies is realistically depicted in this narrative of a family immigrating to Canada from Iowa in 1915. They struggle with the land, the elements and the loneliness to build a life, establish friendships, and develop a sense of belonging. Included in this novel study package: story background and input suggestions, comprehension and vocabulary activities for each chapter, follow-up activities, internet integration, and answer key.
Download or read book Finders Keepers written by Andrea Spalding and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While walking through a neighbourhood field in Alberta, Danny finds an 8,000-year-old arrowhead. His friend Joshua, who lives on the Peigan reserve at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, joins him on buffalo hunts, powwows, archaeological digs, and a break-in at the local museum. In the process Danny learns about history and gains the self-confidence to overcome dyslexia.
Download or read book Wings to Fly written by Celia Barker Lottridge and published by Groundwood Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Celia Barker Lottridge's acclaimed Ticket to Curlew, the Ferrier family moved from the United States to Curlew, Alberta, and built a homestead in the middle of the vast prairie. Now 11-year-old Josie has settled into her new home and she dreams about the future. Will Josie be a teacher like Miss Barnett? Will she be like her new friend Margaret's sad mother, who can't bear to unpack her fine English china in the crude sod house that is her prairie home? Or could she learn to fly airplanes like her heroine, Katherine Stinson? As Josie searches for answers, she learns, all too frighteningly, how brutal a prairie winter can be. Those who loved the Little House on the Prairie series will be captivated by this poignant story of a young girl growing up in the Canadian wilderness.
Download or read book Let s Visit Alberta Gr 2 4 written by and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ticket to Curlew Lib written by Celia Barker Lottridge and published by Topeka Bindery. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sam Ferrier and his father arrive in Curlew, Alberta, in 1915 to build a new house for their family, Sam wonders why his father would move the family from Iowa to such a barren place. But after the house is built and the family joins them, Sam learns there is much more to the prairie that he realized.
Download or read book Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang written by Mordecai Richler and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor Jacob Two-Two. Not only must he say everything twice just to be heard over his four brothers and sisters, but he finds himself the prisoner of the dreaded Hooded Fang. What had he done to deserve such a punishment? The worst crime of all – insulting a grown-up! Although he’s small, Jacob is not helpless, especially when The Infamous Two come to his aid.
Download or read book Ticket to Canada written by Celia Barker Lottridge and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915 eleven-year-old Sam and his father arrive in an undeveloped part of western Canada and begin to plan a new farm for the family waiting back in Iowa.
