Blizzard: A Story of Dakota Territory (The Ramsdell Family)
- 3.9 out of 5
- 254 ratings
- 30 pages
Overall Content Rating: General Audiences G
Based on the language samples provided, this book does not show profanity, crude insults, sexual content, or violence toward people in those passages. The matched wording refers to everyday physical details (animals crossing an icy field, a child arranging things, someone breathing through fabric) rather than fighting, injury, or vulgar speech. For parents reviewing content flags from automated word matching, the violence and crude-language hits in the sample appear to be false positives from ordinary or figurative uses. Nothing in those excerpts suggests graphic harm, strong swearing, or explicit material; overall content guidance from this data aligns with a general-audience (G) level unless other themes appear elsewhere in the book.
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Violence
The book contains depictions of physical conflict, including descriptions of actions such as striking objects and physical encounters. These scenes involve themes of injury. Language is mild.
Crude
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About this book
A homesteading farmer, his pregnant wife, their daughter, and the grandmother wake to a beautiful winter morning on the prairie. And then it descends upon them - the infamous Children's Blizzard of 1888. Who will survive? With characters from Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan , “Blizzard: A Story of Dakota Territory” captures in one sod shanty the dramatic effects of a storm on the bodies and spirits of people who have internal storms of their own. Cover painting and design by Betsy Marsch, illustrator and cover designer for Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan and cover designer for Solomon Ramsdell: A Novel of the Civil War Era . Read more