![]() There are challenges in her new life, but Ivy's feisty character and her sense of wonder for a prairie as wide as the sea make her adventure one that readers won't easily forget. ![]() Ivy's relatives pack up and head back to England, but to Ivy, Canada is full of wonder and beginning to feel like home. But in Milorie, Saskatchewan (located in the Prairie Dry Belt), their dreams crumble into dust when they reach Uncle Alf's small sod hut and discover that jobs are scarce, and that they can barely make ends meet. They've come to join her uncle for the available land, the lush harvests, and the opportunity for success. Ivy Weatherall is just 11 years old when her family leaves England for the promised riches of Canada's expanding West. This is a heartwarming historical fiction YA story told through a revealing one year diary. ![]() Egoff Children’s Literature Prize Nominee (2002). A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall (Dear Canada Series) by Sarah Ellis. ![]()
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