blizzardswake

Blizzard’s Wake, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor ISBN: 0-689-85220-7 c2002 212 pages

Good sections to read aloud: -preface -also explain a little bit about how it’s hard to understand what tie-ins the characters have at the beginning (Zeke: prison; Kate: her mother’s death)

Summary: The time is March 1941. The setting is North Dakota. The weather is unusually nice for this time of year....or is it? Things take a horrible turn for the worse one afternoon. Kate is all alone at home (her mother was killed by a drunk driver several years ago) and her father and brother are on their way home from an appt (Kate’s dad is a doctor). Kate grows concerned when they don’t arrive home on time, but knows she can’t go out into the blizzard conditions to try and reach their car. What should she do?

YA Fiction--survival; forgiveness; blizzards; North Dakota

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