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01625aam a2200325 i 4500 001 503D575E7CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210304010025 007 n 008 200608s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2020019691 020 $a 0399182292 020 $a 9780399182297 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Benjamin, Melanie. $t The children's blizzard. 245 14 $a The children's blizzard : $b a novel / $c Melanie Benjamin. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Delacorte Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 1 online resource. 520 $a "They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling and foul there was no room to breathe, let alone dream. Come to Nebraska! Dakota Territory! Minnesota! Come to the Great Plains of America!"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20210108. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 5 952 $l HLPC845 $d 20211218010502.0 952 $l OGPC877 $d 20210902013504.0 952 $l D3PA284 $d 20210427025431.0 952 $l VGPC334 $d 20210421010125.0 952 $l JZPB162 $d 20210304010544.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=503D575E7CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search