A review by library_brandy
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy

4.0

Middle-school level. A good overview of what happened to the people in the 1888 blizzard that hit the northeast--not a lot on the storm and not much information outside of NYC (which the author addresses in a note, saying that most of the written accounts came out of NYC and thus it's where the focus of his book was). I can see this grabbing middle-school boys, especially since we're currently in the middle of a winter very much like the one that this storm came out of (mild weather & little snow). So that right there could be my booktalk hook.