I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 c.1

by Lauren Tarshis

Paperback, 2018

Status

Check shelf

Call number

J Ta c.1

Publication

Scholastic Paperbacks (2018), Edition: Illustrated, 144 pages

Description

Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML: Bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the Children's Blizzard of 1888 in this latest installment of the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling I Survived series. Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's midwest without warning. Within hours, America's prairie would be buried under ten feet of snow. Hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified and lost and freezing. John never wanted to move to the wide-open prairie. He's a city kid, not a tough pioneer! But his inner strength is seriously tested when he finds himself trapped in the blinding snow, the wind like a giant crushing hammer, pounding him over and over again. Will John ever find his way home?.… (more)

Local notes

2104-139

User reviews

LibraryThing member benuathanasia
I survived formula:
Take a protagonist with minor, inconvenient problems.
Give them a major disaster in which they fail to suffer in any meaningful way and come out (more or less) just fine.
Disaster puts their previous problems in perspective.
BUT, rather than disaster make them stop caring about
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paltry issues, it SOLVES their problems FOR them!
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LibraryThing member jennybeast
Mile a minute survival on the prairie -- like the little house books without most of the day-to-day context -- it's there, but there's also a whole lot of action. I like that these are well researched, that Tarshis shares that research in the back of the book, and that she picks really interesting
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topics. She's great at very quickly establishing a sympathetic character as well.
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LibraryThing member Maydacat
This children’s book will give kids an over-view of this disaster without being too scary. It certainly portrays the seriousness of the storm in all its fierceness. The main character is a young boy, who, along with his younger sister, are quite a likable children. Having come from Chicago, a big
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city, he can’t quite fit in with the rural boys. The author nicely shows how he eventually does. She also examines life on the prairie at that time, with all its hardships and problems. She touches on the grasshopper invasion, which adds much to the story. After the story concludes, the author includes some facts about the blizzard and prairie life, as well as a detailed bibliography for further study about blizzards and more.
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Awards

Flicker Tale Award (Nominee — Middle Grade Fiction — 2019)
Great Reads from Great Places (South Dakota — 2021)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2018

Physical description

7.3 inches

ISBN

0545919770 / 9780545919777

Barcode

802
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