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"Tom and Betsy are working together again on another school project. They decide to use a time traveling machine, an invention of Tom's late grandfather, and they go back the past. They go back to a blizzard that happened near the Rocky Mountains years ago which killed many people.
They get stuck in the snow with a little girl,and can't escape with the time machine because it is frozen. It looks like time is running out again, only this time, will they survive?
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alisa, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Blizzard Disaster |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
Tone of book
- very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- alternate history
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story
Yes
Time Travel:
- largely backwards/past
Plotlets:
- surviving natural elements on planet
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Kid's book (ages 7-14)
Time Travel story?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
Setting
Terrain
- Mountains
Earth setting:
- 20th century
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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