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Chickie Jurin's Zamboozie Stew

by Heidi DeStefano

A chicken expert’s dream on a Montana ranch

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A chicken expert’s dream on a Montana ranch

Ten-year-old Chickie Jurin sees her family’s inherited Montana ranch as a chance to pursue her ambition of becoming the world’s chicken expert. Her siblings and career-minded mother, however, would rather live in town, setting up a family story about competing ideas of home and the room each person needs for a dream. Chickie’s chickens and her signature Zamboozie Stew are part of her effort to win them over, with an eccentric sagebrush farmer also in the mix. The ranch setting and Chickie’s determined project give the book’s family conflict a distinctly farm-and-ranch backdrop.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in family stories set on a ranch.
  • Readers who enjoy stories about chickens, farming, and a young protagonist pursuing an unusual ambition.

Themes

Family disagreement and belongingPersonal ambitionsFarm and ranch life

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Book overview

Chickie Jurin, a ten-year-old school misfit, wants to be the chicken expert of the world. When her family inherits a Montana ranch, she is thrilled to leave town and have a chicken coop she can call her own. Not everyone in her family is excited to live in the middle of nowhere, though.

 

"Mom stepped into the kitchen for a closer look. Her face fell. The stove was crammed with bubbling pots and spattered with grease. The kitchen was a disaster."

 

Chickie's career-minded mother and her siblings: know-it-all Kate, feather-pulling Tom, and perfect Steven, prefer life in town. Will gallons of Zamboozie Stew and the help of an eccentric sagebrush farmer convince her family that the ranch has space for everyone's dreams? Or, will Chickie's dream get smashed like an egg in a jean pocket?

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