This article is about the original book. For the film adaptation, see Night of the Twisters (film). For the tornado outbreak known by the titular nickname on which the book (and loosely, the film) is based, see 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak.
Night of the Twisters
Author
Ivy Ruckman
Cover artist
Joyce Hopkins
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Young adult drama
Set in
Grand Island, Nebraska
Publisher
Harper & Row
Publication date
1984
Media type
Print (paperback, hardcover)
Pages
153
ISBN
0-690-04408-9
Night of the Twisters is a young adult realistic fiction novel by Ivy Ruckman that was released in 1984 by publisher Harper & Row (now HarperCollins). The book is a semi-fictionalized account of the 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak, which produced seven tornadoes (including three that rotated anti-cyclonically) in and around Grand Island, Nebraska, on the evening of June 3, 1980, killing five people and injuring 134. It is told from the point of view of its 12-year-old protagonist Danny Hatch, who – after his home and neighborhood are destroyed by one of the tornadoes – begins a search for his parents as the event takes place.
The book won six literary awards including the Golden Sower Award, the Iowa Children's Choice Award and the Sequoyah Children's Book Award and as well as an Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children recommendation by the National Science Teachers Association and Children's Book Council. A loosely adapted made-for-cable television film of the same name was released on February 14, 1996, airing on The Family Channel (now Freeform).
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