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02271aam a2200433 i 4500 001 626A2DA0417A11EE9B571BA043ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230823010034 008 210922s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0593499476 020 $a 9780593499474 020 $a 0399182306 020 $a 9780399182303 035 $a (OCoLC)1268682594 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Benjamin, Melanie, $e author. 245 14 $a The children's blizzard : $b a novel / $c Melanie Benjamin. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bantam Books, $c 2022. 300 $a 366 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats, leaving them unprepared when disaster struck. At just the hour when most prairie schools were letting out for the day, a terrifying, fast-moving blizzard blew in without warning. Schoolteachers as young as sixteen were suddenly faced with life and death decisions: keep the children inside, to risk freezing to death when fuel ran out, or send them home, praying they wouldn't get lost in the storm? Based on actual oral histories of survivors, this gripping novel follows the stories of Raina and Gerda Olsen, two sisters, both schoolteachers, one who becomes a hero of the storm, and one who finds herself ostracized in the aftermath. 541 $d 20230705. 650 $a Blizzards $z Dakota Territory $x History $v Fiction. 650 $a Blizzards $v Fiction. 650 $a Women teachers $v Fiction. 650 $a School children $v Fiction. 650 $a Sisters $v Fiction. 650 $a Immigrants $v Fiction. 650 $a Journalists $v Fiction. 650 $a Frontier and pioneer life $z Dakota Territory $v Fiction. 651 $a Dakota Territory $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 655 7 $a Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 4 952 $l TZPC572 $d 20240509010903.0 952 $l DFPC353 $d 20240430022204.0 952 $l VTPD454 $d 20240213010601.0 952 $l MIPA194 $d 20230823010343.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=626A2DA0417A11EE9B571BA043ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search