02118cam a2200397 i 4500 888636382 TxAuBib 20230710120000.0 201230s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020019690 9780399182280 hardcover $28.00 0399182284 hardcover $28.00 (OCoLC)1228350175 TxAuBib rda Benjamin, Melanie., author. The children's blizzard : a novel / Melanie Benjamin. First edition. New York : Delacorte Press, [2021] ©2021. 351 pages : map ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a long cold spell, 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. At the hour when most prairie schools were letting out for the day, a terrifying, fast-moving blizzard struck 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, the 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. -- adapted from jacket. 20230710. Blizzards Dakota Territory History Fiction. School children Fiction. Pioneers Dakota Territory Fiction. Immigrants Dakota Territory Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life Dakota Territory Fiction. Dakota Territory History Fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. TXLIV