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01850aam a2200289 4500 001 8C87616A613611EB84F421D052ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210128010019 008 201117s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 9780525492764 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Benjamin, Melanie. 245 14 $a The Children's Blizzard / $c Melanie Benjamin. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Penguin Random House Audio, $c 2021. 300 $a 10 sound discs (780 min.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact disc. 500 $a 01/12/2021. 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 20210112. 655 7 $a Fiction. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. 856 $u https://www.midwesttape.com/images/movies/000/000/000/013/350/000000000013350182.jpg $3 View cover art 941 $a 2 952 $l CHPB482 $d 20210428010715.0 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20210128010643.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8C87616A613611EB84F421D052ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search