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The Children's Blizzard
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The Children's Blizzard
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviators Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren.A nail-biter . . . poignant, powerful, perfect. Kate Quinn, author of The Alice NetworkThe 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 coatsleaving them unprepared when disaster struck. At 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 wouldnt 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 schoolteachersone becomes a hero of the storm and the other finds herself ostracized in the aftermath. Its also the story of Anette Pedersen, a servant girl whose miraculous survival serves as a turning point in her life and touches the heart of Gavin Woodson, a newspaperman seeking redemption. It was Woodson and others like him who wrote the embellished news stories that lured northern European immigrants across the sea to settle a pitiless land. Boosters needed them to settle territories into states, and they didnt care what lies they told these families to get them thereor whose land it originally was.At its heart, this is a story of courage, of children forced to grow up too soon, tied to the land because of their parents choices. It is a story of love taking root in the hard prairie ground, and of families being torn asunder by a ferocious storm that is little remembered todaybecause so many of its victims were immigrants to this country.
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| Author | Melanie Benjamin |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780399182303 |
| Item Height | 2.5 |
| Item Length | 13.3 |
| Item Width | 20.2 |
| Publisher | Random House International |
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