The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n
Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n The 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 coats\u2014leaving 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 wouldn\u2019t get lost in the storm?<\/p>\n Based on actual oral histories of survivors, this gripping novel follows the stories of Raina and Gerda Olsen, two sisters, both schoolteachers\u2014one becomes a hero of the storm and the other finds herself ostracized in the aftermath. It\u2019s 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 didn\u2019t care what lies they told these families to get them there\u2014or whose land it originally was.<\/p>\n 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\u2019 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 today\u2014because so many of its victims were immigrants to this country.. First published January 12, 2021. Original format: Paperback. Pages: 384. #the-children-s-blizzard-ebook #the-children-s-blizzard-epub #read #download<\/p>\n User Rating: 3.95 (based on 18974 ratings)<\/p>\n Download EPUB The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin<\/strong><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcc1 File details: the-children-s-blizzard.epub<\/em><\/p>\n