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Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America
Jim Murphy · Grades 6–8
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Murphy moves between individual survival stories and the storm’s larger mechanics, turning documentary fragments into a tense narrative about a city learning from catastrophe.
Personal accounts, newspapers, maps, and period images reconstruct the March 1888 blizzard that immobilized the northeastern United States, especially New York City.
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Faith and worldview: Extreme weather exposes human limits, uneven vulnerability, neighborly courage, and the public responsibility to build safer systems rather than trust confident predictions.
Freezing deaths, bodies in snow, shipwreck, separation, injury, and frightening child peril appear in text and archival images. Period weather reporting was incomplete; preserve legible maps, captions, chronology, bibliography, and source notes in the selected edition.
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