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ANNA'S BLIZZARD
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Written by
Alison Hart
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Illustrated by
Paul Bachem
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Hardcover: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-349-8
Total Pages: 156
Size: 5 x 7
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Early Reader, ages 7-10/Fiction/History
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Alison Hart is the author of more than forty books for young readers. She is a teacher at Blue Ridge Community College and lives in Virginia. Click here to learn more about her Author in Schools presentations.You can visit Alison Hart's website at: www.alisonhartbooks.com
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Paul Bachem has worked for many years as an award-winning freelance
illustrator, producing work for most of the major book and magazine
publishers. He lives in New York.
You can visit Paul Bachem's website at: www.paulbachem.com
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A young Nebraska girl discovers the courage to save others during a life-threatening snowstorm
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Accelerated Reader & Reading Counts Tests:
Reading Counts Test #: Q43861
Reading Counts Level: 2.9
AR Quiz#: 102986
AR Reading Level: 4.0
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IT IS 1888. 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 on her family's farm, especially when she is herding sheep with her beloved pony, Top Hat. Here, on the open prairie, Anna feels at home in the world. 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 fierce blizzard suddenly kicks up on a mild winter day, Anna, her schoolmates, and young teacher, Miss Simmons, become trapped in the one-room schoolhouse. The kerosene is gone and the wood for the stove is low. Then the wind tears away the roof and door. Anna knows they must escape before it is too late. Does she have the courage and strength to lead the others through the whiteout to safety?
Author Alison Hart offers young readers a dramatic story of rescue and survival set in a nineteenth century homesteading community and featuring a plucky, determined protagonist.
An author's note provides more information about prairie life in the late nineteenth century and about the great storm that hit Nebraska in 1888, now known as "The School Children's Blizzard."
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Reviews
"...readers should identify with Anna and admire her spunk"Kirkus Reviews "Anna is a strong, appealing heroine, and the story is suspenseful..." School Library Journal
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Awards
* 2006 IRA Teachers' Choice
* 2006 WILLA Literary Awards (finalist, Children's/Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction)
* 2007-2008 Volunteer State Master Reading List (intermediate, grades 4-6)
* Nominee, 2008-2009 Nebraska Golden Sower List (grades 4-6)
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