What to read after A Boy Called Allis?

During his trip from Lachute, Quebec, to Cherry Creek, Manitoba, eleven-year-old Allister McRuer shares a train boxcar with three of his brothers and all of their family’s livestock. The closer he gets to the homestead his father and oldest brother, John, started three years ago in 1889, the worse Allister’s misery gets. Older brother, Will, the boxcar “boss,” constantly torments Allister by calling him “Allis,” a name he hates because it sounds like Alice.

Allister’s first hour in Cherry Creek does little to calm his concerns. While their brothers unload the McRuers’ two boxcars, Allister and his twin brother, Jim, explore the town. Disappointed at its miniature school, Allister realizes, We’ll be too far away for it to do me any good, anyway. Probably no school near our homestead, either. Oh, boy. How will I ever finish even the eighth grade?

Down another street, Allister and Jim witness a terrible accident. They jump in to help a horse and an injured driver. Allister’s anxiety over his family’s move to the prairies takes a new turn when he’s told the only doctor within seventy miles is out of town on another call. Who can he get to help them?