5/20/2023 0 Comments Anna's Blizzard by Alison Hart![]() ![]() Anna knows they must escape before it is too late. ![]() Then the wind tears away the roof and door. ![]() The kerosene is gone and the wood for the stove is low. When a fierce blizzard suddenly kicks up on a mild winter day, Anna, her schoolmates, and young teacher, Miss Simmons, become trapped in the one-room schoolhouse. Arithmetic is too hard, her penmanship is abysmal, and stuck-up Eloise Baxter always laughs at her mistakes. But at school she feels hopelessly out of place. Here, on the open prairie, Anna feels at home in the world. She doesn't mind helping out with chores on her family's farm, especially when she is herding sheep with her beloved pony, Top Hat. Twelve-year-old Anna loves life on the Nebraska prairie where she lives with her parents and four-year-old brother in a simple sod house. A dramatic story featuring a young Nebraska girl who discovers the courage to save others during a life-threatening snowstorm IT IS 1888. ![]()
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