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I survived volume 22
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"The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three ... six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after...
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Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
OBD Winter Books - YOUTH
Winter Reading Club is a Reading Wonderland!
OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
OBD Winter Books - YOUTH
Winter Reading Club is a Reading Wonderland!
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"The town of De Smet is hit with terrible, howling blizzards and Laura and her family must ration their food and coal. When the supply train doesn't arrive, Almanzo Wilder and his brother realize something must be done. They begin an impossible journey in search of provisions, before it's too late"--P. [4] of cover.
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Cozy Winter Reads for Middle Grades
OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
OBD Winter Books - YOUTH
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OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
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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....
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
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Ma, Pa, Laura, Mary, and Carrie settle on the prairie land of Minnesota where runaway cattle, wolves, torrential creeks, a grasshopper plague, and a long blizzard offset the joys of a new house, school friends, church socials, and the comfort of a town only three miles away.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 6
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"Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent. Or at least sort of. The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?To celebrate the full-color,...
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Despite disagreements on the wisdom of the adventure, Rainbow Tinseltail and the other unicorns set out for Snowbelle Mountain to find out if Yetis are real--and when they get caught in a blizzard and take shelter in a cave they find the answer to their quest.
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"For over forty years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people (including a dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge, a bookie, a burglar, and a bomber) who are invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the game. All they have to do is...
10) Hattie big sky
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Orphaned at age 16, Hattie Brooks longs for a place where folks will welcome her and become her family. After inheriting her uncle's 320 acre homesteading claim in Montana, Hattie travels from Iowa to make a home for herself and encounters some problems, being unprepared for life on the prairie in the brutal winter of 1918.
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Cold Weather, Warm Hearts: Winter Romance (teens)
GPLD Winter Favorites Young Adult 22-23
Happy Holidays - Teen
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GPLD Winter Favorites Young Adult 22-23
Happy Holidays - Teen
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In Atlanta, just before Christmas, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic apology of her life during the storm of the century, which results in a magical moment that changes everything.
12) Bear snores on
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OBD Winter Books - YOUTH
Snow Much Fun! - ROD Children's
Winter in the Wild (Youth)
Winter Reading Club is a Reading Wonderland!
Snow Much Fun! - ROD Children's
Winter in the Wild (Youth)
Winter Reading Club is a Reading Wonderland!
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One by one, a whole host of different animals and birds find their way out of the cold and into Bear's cave to warm up. But even after the tea has been brewed and the corn has been popped, Bear just snores on! See what happens when he finally wakes up and finds his cave full of uninvited guests, all of them having a party without him!
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Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 5
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Four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol, " but from unexpected blizzards to a sledding disaster, nothing goes as planned.
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Boxcar children volume Prequel
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In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 5
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Timber wolves, a Rocky Mountain blizzard, and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the principal members of a notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery. In the old Montana mining camp of Lucky Lode, the young detectives puzzle over a series of mysterious events. A piano-playing ghost haunts the long-abandoned dance hall. Eerie blue lights flash from the hilltop cemetery in the dark...
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OBD Caldecott Medal Winners - YOUTH
OBD Winter Books - YOUTH
Snow Much Fun! - ROD Children's
Winter Reading Club is a Reading Wonderland!
OBD Winter Books - YOUTH
Snow Much Fun! - ROD Children's
Winter Reading Club is a Reading Wonderland!
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At the first snowfall of the year, all the grown-ups do their usual things when a snowstorm comes, while the children are filled with wonder.
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No place for monsters volume 2
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This follow-up to "No Place for Monsters" finds Levi and Kat trapped in the school overnight by freak weather and discovering that a cold-hearted new evil has emerged that they must stop before it eats the entire school.
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Fireside Detective: Cozy Mysteries for the Cold Months
Holiday Tales (adults)
Merry and Fright (SCPL)
OBD Mysteries Around the World - Adult
Holiday Tales (adults)
Merry and Fright (SCPL)
OBD Mysteries Around the World - Adult
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It's Christmastime, and Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry, is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop's Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody...
19) Hear the wolves
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Sloan Riley is a skilled hunter, but since her mother left, and she lost hearing in one ear, she has clung to her father and older sister, so waking up and discovering they have left her for a few days terrifies her--but when an autumn blizzard threatens to bury her small Alaskan town, and the wolves begin to hunt, she must find her courage if she is to get herself and the few remaining citizens to safety beyond the forest.
20) Hot cocoa hearts
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Wish series (Suzanne Nelson) volume 3
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While working at her parents' Santa photography booth at the mall, Emery meets Alex and begins to question her crush on Sawyer, the moody lead singer of a band.