Books with author Barbara Smucker

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. ;

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. This is the true story of Jumbo, once the star attraction at London Zoo, but it is also the fictional story of Tod Tolliver, a lonely boy who helps take care of Jumbo and loves him. When the zoo sells Jumbo to Barnum's circus in New York, Tod decides to stow away on the ship and join him.