blizzards

"During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. They arrive at an idyllic estate in the Scottish Highlands on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. Two days later, one of them is dead, and another of them did it"--OCLC.

Desperate to reach her grieving mother, Mira joins a group of college students driving home after their flight is stranded, but the road conditions are not the only mortal danger they face.

Ryn, eighteen, trapped by a massive blizzard in the Denver airport, meets some unique characters who help her cope with survivor's guilt on the first anniversary of her best friend's death.

Presents the true story adapted for young readers of the 1978 failed rescue attempt of the tanker "Global Hope" and a Coast Guard patrol boat by the four-man crew of the "Can Do" in a blizzard off the Massachusetts coast.

Molly rides her old horse Belle to piano lessons eight miles each way. On one trip, they are caught in a blizzard, and it is up to Belle to find the way home.

Scientist Artemis Masters travels with his children Curie and Nick to the Adriondacks where he has been hired by local resort owners to develop an early warning system for snowstorms, but when he becomes ill, Curie and Nick take over managing the experiment while trying to figure out why their hosts are trying to sabotage their efforts.

In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard suddenly hits Bismarck, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.

A look at snowstorms, explaining how snowflakes form, discussing the potential dangers of snowstorms and blizzards, and showing how scientists track storms.

Charlie Keller must prove that he can help his mother and sisters survive a Kansas blizzard while his father helps the free-soil settlers in Lawrence to defend their town from proslavery forces.

Explains how each snowflake starts with tiny ice crystals, what makes blizzards such bad storms, and why snow can fall in warm places.