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81) Blizzard
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Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City.
83) The blizzard
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Although a blizzard prevents his cousins from visiting for his birthday, a disappointed Billy ends up having a very special day when his teacher and classmates must stay overnight at his family's house to wait out the snowstorm.
84) Blizzards
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A brief introduction to blizzards, including how they form, where they happen, and blizzard safety.
87) Blizzard
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Introduces what a blizzard is, and how some humans, plants, and animals have adapted to living in places where these fierce snowstorms are common.
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Greg, stuck indoors with his family over the holiday because of a blizzard, suffers from claustrophobia and worries they will not be able to weather the storm.
"Greg Heffley está en apuros. Han manchado una pared de la escuela y Greg is el principal sospechoso. Aunque, según él, es inocente-- o algo parecido. Parece que la policía anda tras la pista de Greg, pero una tormenta de nieve inesperada deja encerrada a la familia Heffley en casa. Greg...
89) 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.
92) Cold meat
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While passing through the Colorado Rockies, David stops for a meal at a diner and ends up heroically saving a young waitress from her violent ex-husband. David hits the road again amid a dangerous blizzard, and one false move sends him into a ravine in the eye of the storm. Slowly running out of resources, it's hard to tell what will get him first: the cold or the beast prowling outside.
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"In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard rescue boat was in as much trouble as the tanker--both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his forty-nine-foot...
96) Terrible storm
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A child's two grandfathers relate their boyhood experiences of the "terrible blizzard of 1888," during which each was stuck for three days doing what he disliked the most.
98) Blizzards
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An introduction to the winter storms that cover the earth with snow, including when and where they occur, the damage they can do, how they are predicted, and the dates of some of the worst blizzards in history.