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Wings to Fly

Celia Barker Lottridge author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada

Published:13th Dec '07

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Winner of the IODE National Chapter Violet Downey Book Award

This sequel to Ticket to Curlew finds eleven-year-old Josie well settled in her new home, but she's never had a friend her own age. So when a girl named Margaret moves to the area from England, Josie is glad to have someone with whom she can ride to school, explore the mysterious, abandoned silver house and dream about the future.

But what does the future hold for a young girl in 1918? Could Josie fly airplanes like Katherine Stinson, her heroine? Will she be a teacher like Miss Barnett? What would it be like to be Margaret's sad mother, who can't bear to unpack her fine English china in the crude sod house that is her new prairie home?

[An] exceptional story. * Children's Bookwatch *
It is fact, as much as fiction, that makes Wings to Fly so rich. * Globe and Mail *
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 *

  • Winner of Violet Downey Book Award 1998 (Canada)
  • Short-listed for Hackmatack Award 2000 (Canada)

ISBN: 9780888998446

Dimensions: 190mm x 127mm x 13mm

Weight: 184g

144 pages

3rd New edition