Barbara Claasen Smucker

• Dec-1955
• / Christian
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Barbara Smucker relates the dramatic and courageous story of refugees from Russia following World War II. This is a story of suspense -- American soldiers, Russian officers, and a midnight train ride in darkened boxcars. Here is danger, escape, and d...

• Jan-1979
• / General Fiction
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Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land w...

• Oct-1979
• / General Fiction
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"There's a place the slaves been whisperin' around called Canada," Mammy tells her daughter one night. "The law don't allow no slavery there." The very next morning, a ruthless slave trader separates Julilly from her mother, taking Ju...

• Jun-1987
• / General Fiction
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An award-winning author tells the story of Jacob Snyder, whose age and height make him feel unwanted, until his father becomes involved in an exciting experiment, raising giant Canada geese to help prevent their extinction, and Jacob gets the job of ...

• Apr-1996
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-1996
• / General Fiction
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Selina is a Mennonite girl living in Pennsylvania in the 1860s. She loves her farm delights in the spring flowers and most of all, takes pleasure in watching her grandmother piece together a quilt.

Grandmother is following the Bear Paw pattern ...

• Sep-1998
• / Historical
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Happily settled in the town of St. Jacobs, Selina has grown a whole inch since her family fled the Civil War. But even the peace of Upper Canada, a new house, and her own room cannot ease memories of loved ones left behind in Pennsylvania. Though...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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Things never seem to go right for Jacob. He's the youngest in his family, so everyone treats him like a baby. And at school, he's the smallest kid in his class, the one who never gets picked for the baseball team. Sometimes he wonders if he'll ever b...

• Sep-2008
• / General Fiction
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Days of peace turn to days of terror for a young boy caught in the tensions of revolutionary times.

Set in 1917 and the years following, Days of Terror tells the story of ten-year-old Peter Neufeld and his family. Sickened by the horrors of anarch...