Anna's Blizzard
Anna's Blizzard

Author: Alison Hart

Publisher: Holiday House

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1561459275

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When a fierce blizzard suddenly kicks up on a mild winter day, a young Nebraska girl must find the courage and strength to lead others to safety in this novel inspired by the true story of the 1888 School Children's Blizzard. Twelve-year-old Anna loves life on the Nebraska prairie where she lives with her parents and four-year-old brother in a simple sod house. She doesn't mind helping out with chores, especially when she is herding sheep with her beloved pony, Top Hat. On the open prairie, Anna feels at home. But at school she feels hopelessly out of place. Arithmetic is too hard, her penmanship is abysmal, and stuck-up Eloise Baxter always laughs at her mistakes. When a unexpected blizzard traps Anna, her schoolmates, and their young teacher in the one-room schoolhouse, Anna knows they must escape before it is too late. Does she have the courage and strength to lead her class through the whiteout to safety? Alison Hart offers young readers a dramatic story of rescue and survival featuring a plucky, determined protagonist. An author's note provides more information about prairie life in the late nineteenth century and about the School Children's Blizzard.

Murphy, Gold Rush Dog
Murphy, Gold Rush Dog

Author: Alison Hart

Publisher: Holiday House

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1561458759

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A girl, her mother, and their dog must find a way to survive in gold rush-era Alaska. After escaping from his brutal and merciless owner, Murphy is taken in by a young girl named Sally. She and her mother have just arrived in Nome, Alaska, intent on joining the other gold seekers and making a new life. Yet even with Murphy at their side, Sally and Mama find living in the mining town harsh and forbidding. When it seems they may have to return to San Francisco, Sally and Murphy decide to strike out on their own, hoping to find gold and make a permanent home. But dangers await them—not only blizzards and grizzly bears, but also Murphy's original owner, who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. The Dog Chronicles series features fast-paced, fascinating historical fiction about working dogs, perfect for readers who love books.

The Correspondence of Erasmus
The Correspondence of Erasmus

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1975-01-07

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780802019837

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Although most of the letters from this period are familiar letters to friends or formal dedications to prospective patrons, there are occasional glimpses into the intense intellectual activity that filled these years.

Maddy and the Monstrous Storm
Maddy and the Monstrous Storm

Author: Julie Gilbert

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1666340685

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Thirteen-year-old Maddy Rollag struggles with prairie life on her aunt and uncle's farm in Dakota Territory, but on January 12, 1888, when a blizzard threatens to trap Maddy and her classmates inside their damaged schoolhouse, she finds the courage and strength to lead them to safety. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.

City of Snow
City of Snow

Author: Linda Oatman-High

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 0802789102

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A fictionalized account, told in free-verse poems, of a young girl's experience living through the 1888 "Great Blizzard" in New York City.

The Siege
The Siege

Author: Helen Dunmore

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780802139580

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Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by "The New York Times Book Review, The Siege" is Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental--the Nazi's 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed 600,000--but her focus is heartrendingly intimate.