blizzards

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blizzards

Floods and blizzards

2010
Text, photographs, and diagrams introduce floods and blizzards, describing what they are, how they affect the land, and how people prepare for them. Includes instructions for an experiment.

Blizzard

2007
Looks at the weather phenomena known as a blizzard, explaining what blizzards are, where and why they occur, and what conditions are like during a blizzard, and discusses how people prepare for and cope with these fierce snowstorms.

Anna, Grandpa, and the big storm

1985
Anna's grandfather is bored with city life until he and Anna are stranded on the Third Avenue El during the blizzard of 1888.

Trapped on the Golden Flyer

1978
The train carrying Paul west through the Sierra Nevadas becomes frozen to the tracks during a blizzard and the passengers are drawn together in a fight for survival.

Snow day

2001
The students at the Barkley School for Dogs are excited by the prospect of being snowed in when a major storm hits the city, but the situation becomes troublesome when Bubba disappears in the blizzard.

Blizzard!

snowstorm fury
2000
Contains numerous stories about famous blizzards throughout history and provides scientific facts about the storms. Describes how the National Weather Service tracks storms and offers tips for staying safe in a blizzard.

Blizzard

1997
Kate, Abby, and other Med Center volunteers work tirelessly to save lives when a blizzard hits Grant, Massachusetts.

Pooh's snowy day

2010
When a blizzard hits the Hundred Acre Wood and everyone is snowed in, one by one the animals dig out and discover how much easier it is if they all work together.

City of snow

the Great Blizzard of 1888
2004
A fictionalized account, told in free-verse poems, of a young girl's experience living through the 1888 "Great Blizzard" in New York City.

Panic in the snow

the 1888 New York City blizzard
2002
Gerald risks his own life and braves the 1888 New York City blizzard in order to get the medicine his sister desperately needs.

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