SOLVED. Teen Sicily is stranded in a big city by a huge snow storm. Story is about the fathers ordeal to find her. [s]

[Ken]

I read this book in 1968. I remember the title as the Big Snow, but it must be something else. I have never been able to find the book. IIRC it is about a young girl that wants to go to the city (NYC?) for the first time without her parents. They finally let her go with a friend and after they arrived there was a huge snow storm that interrupted transportation and communication. The story is about the hell the father went through to find his daughter. I named my daughter after the girl. My daughter's name is Sicely, however the character's name may have been Sicily. I'd love to find this book for my daughter before I die.. Thank you, Ken

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Ken--you need to go in and put a little info into your thread title. Many of our members only read the threads that they think they can solve. And, if there is no description of what the book is, they just skip right over the thread, since every one of the threads in this folder are about someone who doesn't know the title and author of a book.

Was this a YA? Was it old or new when you read it? Where did you find it?

[Ken]

Thanks, I didn't fully understand the procedure. I don't know what YA is. I was on a ship in the Gulf of Tonkin when I read the book. Thank you.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

YA means young adult - aimed at a reader in junior high or a little beyond, probably up to age 18.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Were you in the Navy at the time? If so, it probably is NOT YA.

[Ken]

Yes, I was in the Navy and it was about 46 years ago.
I was 20 at the time. Thank you.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Older books are often harder to find, both because not as many people in the group have read them, and because in book databases they are less likely to have a description, which means it is harder to search for them using key words. Just FYI.

But don't give up. That doesn't mean it won't be found. Do you remember what the cover looked like?

[Ken]

I do not, but I certainly appreciate the opportunity to have help solving this puzzle. It would mean a lot to me to find the book. Best, Ken

[Michele]

Do you remember anything about the father? What kind of work did he do and maybe that made it easier/harder for him to find her?

Why did he go after her - did he know she didn't have enough money, it wasn't supposed to be more than a day trip, he heard her train got stranded, etc?

Did she need the rescue? I mean, maybe when he found her she was fine in some shelter with other stranded travellers or she was about to freeze to death on a street corner?

[Ken]

There was no transportation due to the weather. I only vaguely remember details. River frozen over and I can't remember what sort of situation the girls were in or how he actually found her. I'm sorry, but it was around 46 years ago. Thanks Michelle

[Ayshe]

The Great Snow by Henry Morton Robinson maybe?
I found this using Google books:
The twenty-day snowfall which gives this book its tide is a device for a study of the behavior of a group of people under stress. The book implies that it shows us the plight and conduct of Man when faced with the paralysis of the intricate system of services, transportation and communication that keeps much of modern life going.
A wealthy patent lawyer, Ruston Cobb, is snowbound in his sumptuous Rhinecliff mansion with his neurotic wife, Nolla; his effeminate young son, Roddy; his daughter, Sicely, whom he rescues from the Albany Railroad Station via the Hudson... (The Key Reporter, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa at the Garamond Pridemark Press, 1947)

[Ken]

Bless you! That's it, I remembered it as the big snow. I'm going to buy the book if possible and give it to Sicely. I'm very happy about this. Thank you very much. Ken Donaldson Corvallis Oregon

[Kris]

Note: Shelved this book as Adult not YA based on Worldcat.org's subject labels.