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Title:
Blizzard
Summary:
Blizzard is based on John Rocco's childhood experience during the now infamous Blizzard of 1978, which brought fifty-three inches of snow to his town in Rhode Island. Told with a brief text and dynamic illustrations, the book opens with a boy's excitement upon seeing the first snowflake fall outside his classroom window. It ends with the neighborhood's immense relief upon seeing the first snowplow break through on their street. In between the boy watches his familiar landscape transform into something alien, and readers watch him transform into a hero who puts the needs of others first. John uses an increasing amount of white space in his playful images, which include a gatefold spread of the boy's expedition to the store. This book about the wonder of a winter storm is as delicious as a mug of hot cocoa by the fire on a snowy day. -- Amazon.
Audience:
Elementary Grade.

570 Lexile.
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 3.0.

Reading Counts! 2.3.

Accelerated Reader AR LG 3 0.5 170829.
Publisher:
Disney-Hyperion,
Publication Date:
2014
ISBN:
9781423178651
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2014.

©2014
Award Note:
Junior Library Guild selection
Call Number:
P ROCCO
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