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The Snowball was Amazon.com's best business and investing book of the year 2008. [4] Time Magazine, People Magazine, and critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times named it one of ten best books of the year. [5] The Washington Post, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, and Publishers Weekly also each named The Snowball the best book of 2008. [5]
The Snowball (first published 1969) is a domestic fantasy novel for children by the English writer Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), [1] who is best known for her Carbonel series. The two main human characters are Tom Tickle, aged eight, and his sister Tilda, aged six.
Primarily set in Los Angeles between the years 1983 and 1986, the series revolves around the first crack epidemic and its impact on the city, and the stories of several characters whose lives are fated to intersect: 20-year-old drug dealer Franklin Saint, Mexican luchador Gustavo "El Oso" Zapata, CIA operative Teddy McDonald, and a Mexican crime boss's niece, Lucia Villanueva.
Monthly Film Bulletin said "Though Pat Jackson's direction misses a few opportunities, this is a fascinating little second feature. The unsophisticated plot, given a few coincidences too many, is well developed and followed through, the everyday characters apart from a naive portrayal of a cub reporter being convincingly interpreted by a well-chosen cast.
In the series' final segment, in an old section of the library, Arthur, Buster, Francine, and Muffy stumble across a board game that predicts their future careers. However, the game gives vague answers and runs out of battery power before Arthur's future can be predicted.
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Between 640 and 720 million years ago, the Earth was covered in ice, snagging it the modern nickname “Snowball Earth.” Recently, researchers found a rock formation that shows the transition ...