The Children’s Blizzard is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical persons appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2021 by Melanie Hauser

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Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Hardback ISBN 9780399182280

Ebook ISBN 9780399182297

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Book design by Barbara M. Bachman, adapted for ebook

Cover design: Belina Huey

Cover illustration: Tom Hallman, based on image courtesy of the Library of Congress

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