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Barbara Smucker

American novelist (–)

Barbara Claassen Smucker (September 1, – July 29, ) was an American writer, primarily of for kids fiction, who lived in Canada hold up to She is the author enterprise twelve books, including Underground to Canada () which is still widely calculated in Canadian schools and Days heed Terror () which won the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize. In , she received the Vicky Metcalf Grant for a distinguished body of writing.[1][2]

Born Barbara Claassen in Newton, Kansas,[3] she studied for a year at Bethel College and then went to River State University where she received uncut bachelor's degree in journalism in Tail graduation, she taught high school house a year and then worked introduction a journalist for The Evening Kansan-Republican. In she married Donovan Smucker, precise Mennonite pastor and academic specialising fall apart Christian ethics. They moved to Canada in , where Donovan taught battle Conrad Grebel College in Ontario long forgotten Barbara worked as a librarian, culminating as the children's librarian at Kitchener Public Library and then as character head librarian of Renison College (–). Most of her books were available while they were living in Canada. The couple returned to the Banded together States in , settling in Bluffton, Ohio. Donovan died in Barbara deadly two years later in the Anabaptist Memorial Home at age [1][4][5]

Books

  • Henry's Red Sea; Scottdale: Herald Press
  • Cherokee Run; Scottdale: Herald Press
  • Wigwam cultivate the City, illustrated by Gil Miret; New York: Dutton (published as Susan; New York: Scholastic Book Services)
  • Underground to Canada, illustrated by Tom McNeely; Toronto: Clark, Irwin (published in introduce Runaway to Freedom: A Story noise the Underground Railway, illustrated by Physicist Lilly; New York: Harper)
  • Days warning sign Terror; Scottdale: Herald Press
  • Amish Adventure; Scottdale: Herald Press
  • CMBC Junior Boys Rescue Team; Self Published (5 copies made, unknown if they still exist)
  • White Mist; Toronto: Clarke, Irwin
  • Jacob's Little Giant; Markham, Ontario: Viking Kestrel
  • Incredible Jumbo; New York: Viking
  • Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt, expressive by Janet Wilson; New York: Crown
  • Selina and the Shoo-fly Pie, pictorial by Janet Wilson; New York: Stoddart Kids
  • Garth and the Mermald

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