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Henry's Red Sea
SMUCKER BARBARA
Paperback (Herald Press, Oct. 21, 2002)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 deliverance. An actual event that happened in Berlin in 1946.
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Days of Terror
Barbara Claassen Smucker
Hardcover (Herald Pr, Sept. 1, 1979)Chronicles the plight of the Neufelds in 1917, who suffer religious persecution as Mennonites in war torn Russia and who seek a new life in Canada
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Susan =: Wigwam in the city
Barbara Claassen Smucker
Paperback (Scholastic Book Services, March 15, 1966)Susan is a new girl and she doesn't know anyone in the big, crowded school yard. Shyly she watches some girls jumping rope. "I'd like to play with them," she thinks, and walks slowly toward them. But suddenly a loud voice yells, "Hey! Here comes the Indian!" Susan Bearskin wants to run away and cry. Everything is so awful in this big city!
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Underground To Canada
Barbara Claassen Smucker, Lawrence Hill
eBook (Puffin Canada, June 3, 2008)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 where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the Underground Railroad offer to help the two girls escape, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them…
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Incredible Jumbo
Barbara Claassen Smucker
Hardcover (Viking Juvenile, Feb. 1, 1991)In the 1870's, a young boy helps care for the enormous African elephant that is the London Zoo's feature attraction and accompanies him to America to become part of P.T. Barnum's circus.
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Incredible Jumbo
Barbara Claassen Smucker
Paperback (Puffin Books, May 28, 1992)None
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Underground To Canada: Puffin Classics Edition
Barbara Smucker
Paperback (Puffin Canada, Nov. 5, 2013)There's a place the slaves been whisperin' around called Canada. The law don't allow no slavery there. They say you follow the North Star, and when you step onto this land you are free ...... 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 slaver trader's wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the Underground Railroad offer to help the two girls escape, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them .....
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Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt
Barbara Smucker
Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers, April 9, 1996)When her Mennonite family moves to Upper Canada to avoid involvement in the Civil War, young Selina is given a special quilt to remember the grandmother she left behind
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Days of Terror
Barbara Claassen Smucker
Hardcover (Irwin Pub, May 1, 1980)2002175; Clean, tight, crisp, usual ex-library markings. Days of Terror is the fruit of a vast amount of reading among actual accounts of the period when the Mennonites are caught in the tensions of revulutonary times. Set in 1917 and the years following, the climax is the epic story of a mass exodus of Mennonites to Canada and the United States, away from the horrors of anarchy, famine and the Russion Revolution. ;
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Wigwam in the city
Barbara Claassen Smucker
Hardcover (Dutton, Jan. 1, 1966)None
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Days of Terror
Barbara Smucker
Mass Market Paperback (Puffin, Jan. 6, 1981)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 anarchy, famine and the Russian revolution, the Neufelds decide to join the mass exodus of Mennonites to North America. But will they survive the journey?
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Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railway
Barbara Smucker
Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, March 1, 1978)Two young slave girls escape from a plantation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad.
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